Wright Morris: The Works of Love
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Works of Love. Morris is very much an underrated writer . This is a first-class novel, which does not get…
The latest addition to my website is Wright Morris' The Works of Love. Morris is very much an underrated writer . This is a first-class novel, which does not get…
The latest addition to my website is Daniel Kehlmann's Du hättest gehen sollen (You Should Have Left). This is a short (ninety-six pages) novel and a slightly different approach from…
The latest addition to my website is Norman Manea's Vizuina (The Lair). This is a superb novel about exile, focussing on four Romanian exiles but, in particular, Peter Gașpar. His…
The latest addition to my website is Yamen Manai's La Sérénade d’Ibrahim Santos [The Serenade of Ibrahim Santos]. Though a Tunisian novel with clear references to the political situation in…
The latest addition to my website is Max Aub's Campo de los almendros [Field of the Almond Trees], the sixth, last and by far the longest in his Magic Labyrinth…
The latest addition to my website is Leïla Slimani's Chanson douce [Sweet Song]. Slimani, born in Morocco and resident in France, won the Prix Goncourt for this novel. We know…
The latest addition to my website is Santiago Gamboa's Vida feliz de un joven llamado Esteban [Happy Life of a Young Man Called Esteban]. This is a quasi-autobiographical novel (i.e.…
The latest addition to my website is Gaël Faye's Petit pays [Little Country]. Gaël Faye was born in Burundi of a French father and a Rwandan mother. He now lives…
The latest addition to my website is Sibilla Aleramo's Una donna (A Woman at Bay; later: A Woman). This is an early Italian feminist literary autobiographical novel, written nearly a…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Zamir's Anguille sous Roche [Eel Under Rock], a Comorian novel published this summer, which has received a certain amount of acclaim in…