Ellis Sharp: Quin Again
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Quin Again. Though subtitled and other stories, it reads as a novel as all but one of the stories is about…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Quin Again. Though subtitled and other stories, it reads as a novel as all but one of the stories is about…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's To Wetumpka. This is, inevitably, another experimental novel from Sharp, with a bleak view of the contemporary world, albeit touched with…
The latest addition to my website is Anak Agung Pandji Tisna's Sukreni Gadis Bali (The Rape of Sukreni), the first Balinese novel on my website. Men Negara owns a food…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' El viaje vertical [The Vertical Voyage], one of his books that has yet to be translated into English though it has…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (A Brief History of Portable Literature). This novel (?) follows a format similar to several…
The latest addition to my website is Lesia Daria's Forty One. This is a novel by a woman born in the USA, of Ukrainian parents but currently living in the…
The latest addition to my website is Cyprian Ekwensi's Burning Grass, a well-written and lively novel about a Fulani family in Nigeria. The patriarch, Mai, is afflicted with the wandering…
Jonathan Coe's novels apparently sell better in France. Coe claims that British people can see how current politics is impacting on the country every day in the papers and on…
The latest addition to my website is Claude Ollier's Déconnection (later: Obscuration) (Disconnection). Ollier was one of the French writers associated with Editions de Minuit and the nouveau roman but…
The latest addition to my website is Herta Müller's Herztier (The Land of Green Plums). This is a remorselessly grim story of life in Ceausescu's Romania, told by an unnamed…