Sindiwe Magona: Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle
The latest addition to my website is Sindiwe Magona's Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle. This is a feminist novel, set in a traditional South African village and follows…
The latest addition to my website is Sindiwe Magona's Chasing the Tails of My Father’s Cattle. This is a feminist novel, set in a traditional South African village and follows…
The latest addition to my website is Austin Clarke's The Sun Dances at Easter. This is a story set around a thousand years ago, involving Irish myths and legends and…
The latest addition to my website is Michal Ajvaz's Druhé Město (The Other City). This is a full-blown fantasy tale, telling of the unnamed narrator who discovers that there is…
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.…