Enrique Vila-Matas: El viaje vertical [The Vertical Voyage]
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…
Enrique Vila-Matas: Historia abreviada de la literatura portátil (A Brief History of Portable Literature)
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…
Lesia Daria: Forty One
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…
Cyprian Ekwensi: Burning Grass
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 sells better in France
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…
Claude Ollier: Déconnection (later: Obscuration) (Disconnection)
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…
Herta Müller: Herztier (The Land of Green Plums)
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…
Rafael Chirbes Foundation
I have made no secret of the fact that I consider Rafael Chirbes to have been a brilliant writer and his untimely death a few months ago was a great…
Herta Müller: Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel)
The latest addition to my website is Herta Müller's Atemschaukel (The Hunger Angel). This tells the story of Leopold Auberg, a seventeen year old German-Romanian. When the Soviets capture Romania…
Kathryn Davis: Duplex
The latest addition to my website is Kathryn Davis' Duplex. This novel takes a fairly conventional story - a street somewhere in the US, with a boy and girl growing…