Victor Pelevin: Омон Ра (Omon Ra)
The latest addition to my website is Victor Pelevin's Омон Ра (Omon Ra). This is a fairly conventional satire on the Soviet space programme. Omon, the hero (named after the…
Victor Pelevin: Жёлтая стрела (The Yellow Arrow)
The latest addition to my website is Victor Pelevin's Жёлтая стрела (The Yellow Arrow). This short novel is a train-as-a-metaphor-for-life novel, by no means the first in Russian literature. This…
Ellis Sharp: Lamees Najim
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Lamees Naji, the third Sharp novel published this year and the third I have reviewed in the past couple of weeks.…
Edmundo Paz Soldán: El delirio de Turing (Turing’s Delirium)
The latest addition to my website is Edmundo Paz Soldán's El delirio de Turing (Turing’s Delirium), only the second Bolivian novel on my site. This one is set during the…
Jonathan Coe: Number 11
The latest addition to my website is Jonathan Coe's Number 11. This is a sort of an update to Coe's What a Carve Up! (US: The Winshaw Legacy). The former…
A reading list in response to the Paris attacks
The Syndicat de la librairie française (the French booksellers' association) has put out a reading list of books to read following the terrorist atacks in Paris. The list is, of…
Mouloud Mammeri: La Colline Oubliée [The Forgotten Hill]
The latest addition to my website is Mouloud Mammeri's La Colline Oubliée [The Forgotten Hill], one of the many Algerian novels sadly not translated into English. This one is about…
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…
Ellis Sharp: To Wetumpka
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…
Anak Agung Pandji Tisna: Sukreni Gadis Bali (The Rape of Sukreni)
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…