Javier Marías: Así empieza lo malo [Thus Bad Begins]
The latest addition to my website is Javier Marías' Así empieza lo malo [Thus Bad Begins]. This is another excellent novel from Marías about marital relations, the enduring effect of…
The latest addition to my website is Javier Marías' Así empieza lo malo [Thus Bad Begins]. This is another excellent novel from Marías about marital relations, the enduring effect of…
The latest addition to my website is Kirsti Paltto's Guržo luottat, the first Sámi novel on my website, and, apparently, the first novel written by a Sámi woman. I have…
The latest addition to my website is Réda Dalil's Le Job [The Job]. Having decided, unlike the past two years, not to read all the Man Booker shortlist entries, as…
The latest addition to my website is Wilson Harris' The Eye of the Scarecrow. This is another strange novel from Harris, about a trip into the Guyanese jungle to find…
The most recent addition to my website is Pierre Mertens' Les éblouissements (Shadowlight), Mertens' best-known novel. It tells the story of German poet Gottfried Benn, starting with a section on…
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's The Children Act. This novel did not make the Man Booker 20124 longlist and, while it certainly is not a bad…
The latest addition to my website is David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks. While this did make the Man Booker 2014 longlist, it surprisingly did not make the shortlist. I suspect…
The latest addition to my website is Orhan Pamuk's Cevdet Bey ve Oğullari [Cevdet Bey and His Sons]. This is his first book, which has yet to be translated into…
I have just returned from a trip to Sweden and Lithuania. In Sweden, I stayed in the small town of Växjö (small but with a large university in its outskirts).…
I am not terribly impressed with this year's shortlist: Joshua Ferris: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour Richard Flanagan: The Narrow Road to the Deep North Karen Joy Fowler:…