Zofia Nałkowska: Granica (Boundary)
The latest addition to my website is Zofia Nałkowska's Granica (Boundary). This is a superb Polish feminist novel, first published in 1935, which surprisingly has only just been translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Zofia Nałkowska's Granica (Boundary). This is a superb Polish feminist novel, first published in 1935, which surprisingly has only just been translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Michal Ajvaz's Zlatý věk (The Golden Age). This is a superbly original novel about an island off the coast of Africa, which though…
The latest addition to my website is Jean Boudou's La Quimèra [The Chimaera], one of the classics of the Occitan novel. Jean Boudou, as he is known in French, is…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's Drylands, her last novel written when she was seventy-four. It is a bitter novel, whose main theme is how standards have…
The latest addition to my website is A L Kennedy's Serious Sweet. This is another first-class novel from Kennedy, telling the story over the course of one day of two…
The latest addition to my website is Max Aub's Campo de sangre [Field of Blood], the third in his Magic Labyrinth series about the Spanish Civil War. The book opens…
The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. Daitch wrote two excellent post-modern novels in 1986 and 1990. Since then, she has written only…
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Una di loro [One of Them]. This is another excellent novel from Capriolo, sadly not translated into English. The unnamed narrator…
The latest addition to my website is James Robertson's To Be Continued. This is a very funny novel about Douglas Elder, a man who reaches his fiftieth birthday on the…
The latest addition to my website is Ivan Vladislavic's The Folly. This novel, set in Vladislavic's native South Africa, tells of a strange man, Nieuwenhuizen, who arrives to claim an…