Javier Cercas: El Impostor [The Impostor]
The latest addition to my website is Javier Cercas' El Impostor [The Impostor]. This is what Cercas describes as a novel without fiction, i.e a novel based on a real…
V. Y. Mudimbe: Entre les eaux (Between Tides)
The latest addition to my website is V. Y. Mudimbe's Entre les eaux (Between Tides), a fairly rare occurrence of a novel from the Democratic Republic of the Congo that…
Tryno Maldonado: Teoría de las catástrofes [Catastrophe Theory]
The latest addition to my website is Tryno Maldonado's Teoría de las catástrofes [Catastrophe Theory. This novel is set in Oaxaca, Mexico, during the 2006 protests, arising from a teacher's…
Oskar Maria Graf: Das Leben meiner Mutter (The Life of My Mother)
The latest addition to my website is Oskar Maria Graf's Das Leben meiner Mutter (The Life of My Mother). This is an excellent autobiographical novel, about, of course, Oskar Maria…
Esmail Fassih: ثريا در اغما (Sorraya in a Coma)
The latest addition to my website is Esmail Fassih's ثريا در اغما (Sorraya in a Coma). The eponymous heroine of this noel, Sorraya, spends the whole of the book in…
Augusto Higa Oshiro: La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu [The Illumination of Katzuo Nakamatsu]
The latest addition to my website is Augusto Higa Oshiro's La iluminación de Katzuo Nakamatsu [The Illumination of Katzuo Nakamatsu]. The hero of the novel, Katzuo Nakamatsu, is a fifty-eight…
Habib Selmi: نساء البساتين (Souriez, vous êtes en Tunisie !) [Smile, You Are In Tunisia]
The latest addition to my website is Habib Selmi's نساء البساتين (Souriez, vous êtes en Tunisie !) [Smile, You Are In Tunisia]. The novel is narrated by Taoufik, a Tunisian…
Gonçalo M. Tavares: Um Homem: Klaus Klump (O Reino (The Kingdom) series) (A Man: Klaus Klump)
The latest addition to my website is Gonçalo M. Tavares' Um Homem: Klaus Klump (O Reino (The Kingdom) series) (A Man: Klaus Klump). This is the first in the Kingdom…
Wilson Harris: Resurrection at Sorrow Hill
The latest addition to my website is Wilson Harris' Resurrection at Sorrow Hill. This is another hard slog, though Harris takes up many of the both the themes and locations…
Gonçalo M. Tavares: A Máquina de Joseph Walser (O Reino (The Kingdom) series) (Joseph Walser’s Machine)
The latest addition to my website is Gonçalo M. Tavares' A Máquina de Joseph Walser (O Reino (The Kingdom) series) (Joseph Walser's Machine). As the title implies, Joseph Walser has…