Marlen Haushofer: Die Wand (The Wall)
The latest addition to my website is Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand (The Wall). The story tells of an unnamed woman who is to stay with friends in a hunting lodge…
The latest addition to my website is Marlen Haushofer's Die Wand (The Wall). The story tells of an unnamed woman who is to stay with friends in a hunting lodge…
The latest addition to my website is Victor Pelevin's Чапаев и Пустота (UK: The Clay Machine-Gun; US: Buddha’s Little Finger). This is another wonderful, witty, post-modernist novel from Pelevin. Pyotr…
The latest addition to my website is Kate Atkinson's A God in Ruins. This is a follow-up to her quirky Life After Life. That book featured Ursula Todd. This book,…
The latest addition to my website is James Salter's A Sport and a Pastime. The novel is set in France, specifically Paris and Autun, and is narrated by a self-confessed…
The latest addition to my website is Jowhor Ile's And After Many Days. This is Ile's first novel and very well written for a first novel. The story involves the…
I have just returned from a distinctly unliterary holiday in South Africa and Zimbabwe, with little literary to report. The South Africans I talked to were fairly ignorant of their…
I was a long time subscriber to the French literary magazine La Quinzaine Littéraire, founded by the wonderful writer and editor Maurice Nadeau, who died in 2013 aged 102! He…
The latest addition to my website is Abdulaziz Al-Farsi's تبكي الأرض– يضحك زحل (Earth Weeps, Saturn Laughs), the first Omani novel on my website. It is a gently mocking satire…
The latest addition to my website is Cyprian Ekwensi's Survive the Peace. This novel is set at the end of the Biafran War. James Odugo is a radio journalist who…
The latest addition to my website is Alexander Chayanov's Путешествие моего брата Алексея в страну крестьянской утопии (The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia). This…