6 July 2017 – The Modern Novel

Janne Teller: Hvis der var krig i Norden (War)

6 July 2017 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Janne Teller‘s Hvis der var krig i Norden (War). This is a story that imagines that it is the Danes that become refugees (in the Danish original) but the British in this translation of the book. Britain as been taken over by a dictator with his nasty Britification … Read more

Ghassan Zaqtan: وصف الماضيالمرآة (Describing the Past)

6 July 2017 by tmn

The latest addition to my website is Ghassan Zaqtan‘s Ghassan Zaqtan: وصف الماضيالمرآة (Describing the Past). This is a wonderful novel of memory and death and sensuality, set primarily in a Palestinian refugee camp. There are three main characters, never named, referred to only as I, he and she, all of whom tell their own … Read more