Ramon Saizarbitoria: Martutene (Martutene)
The latest addition to my website is Ramon Saizarbitoria's Martutene (Martutene). This is a mammoth (816 pages) Basque novel, that has claims to being the Great Basque Novel. Primarily, it…
The latest addition to my website is Ramon Saizarbitoria's Martutene (Martutene). This is a mammoth (816 pages) Basque novel, that has claims to being the Great Basque Novel. Primarily, it…
We have just returned from our continuing tour of East European capitals - the third this year and the fifth in the past two years - with a visit to…
The latest addition to my website is Rabih Alameddine's The Angel of History. As with his first novel, Koolaids, the main theme of this book is about how the AIDS…
The latest addition to my website is Hwang Jungeun's 百의 그림자 (One Hundred Shadows). This is a very original work, which has had considerable success in South Korea, about very…
The latest addition to my website is Rabih Alameddine's Koolaids. This is a first-class novel about two forgotten (according to the author) wars: the The Lebanese Civil War and the…
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians. Many critics raved about her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Riquet à la houppe [Riquet with the Tuft]. This is a modern updating of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Riquet with the…
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Nutshell. The novel is narrated by an unborn foetus, The foetus' mother, Trudy, is separated from his father, John, a poet…
The latest addition to my website is Ivan Vladislavic's The Restless Supermarket. This is a very funny story about a retired proofreader, Aubrey Tearle, who is fighting a losing battle…
The latest addition to my website is Michael Hughes' The Countenance Divine. This is an apocalyptic vision of England with the story told in four periods. In the first period…