14 September 2016 – The Modern Novel

Rabih Alameddine: The Angel of History

14 September 2016 by tmn

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 epidemic in San Francisco has been relegated to the back pages and racism towards Arabs is to the fore, with the situation in the Middle … Read more

Hwang Jungeun: 百의 그림자 (One Hundred Shadows)

14 September 2016 by tmn

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 ordinary people in South Korea, whose shadows behave erratically. This may mean rising up or even detaching themselves from their owners. There is no obvious … Read more