César Aira: El tilo (The Lime Tree; The Linden Tree)
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El tilo (The Lime Tree; The Linden Tree). This is somewhat different from the normal Aira in that there is no…
Jean Giono: Pour saluer Melville (Melville: A Novel)
The latest addition to my website is Jean Giono's Pour saluer Melville (Melville: A Novel), published in French in 1941 but only published this year in English. It was intended,…
Boualem Sansal: 2084 la fin du monde (2084: The End Of The World)
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's 2084 la fin du monde (2084: The End Of The World). This is Sansal's updated, Algerianised 1984. Though he refers to…
Maria Gabriela Llansol: Geografia de Rebeldes (Geography of Rebels trilogy)
The latest addition to my website is Maria Gabriela Llansol's Geografia de Rebeldes (Geography of Rebels trilogy). This is Llansol's first work published in English. The first two books focus…
Chico Buarque: Estorvo (Turbulence)
The latest addition to my website is Chico Buarque's Estorvo (Turbulence). Buarque is best-known as a singer and composer but he has written novels, poetry and drama. This is quite…
Joyce Cary: Not Honour More
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's Not Honour More. This is the third in Carey's second trilogy and definitely the weakest. It follows on from the first…
Geoff Nicholson: The Miranda
The latest addition to my website is Geoff Nicholson's The Miranda. I have read all of Nicholson's novels but this one is somewhat different from the others, less quirky, less…
Ece Temelkuran: Düğümlere Üfleyen Kadınlar (Women Who Blow on Knots)
The latest addition to my website is Ece Temelkuran's Düğümlere Üfleyen Kadınlar (Women Who Blow on Knots). This is a superb feminist novel about four women - the unnamed Turkish…
Jean Giono: Le Moulin de Pologne (The Malediction)
The latest addition to my website is Jean Giono's Jean Giono: Le Moulin de Pologne (The Malediction). This is not the joyous Giono novel of his early years but, as…
Nicola Pugliese: Malacqua (Malacqua)
The latest addition to my website is Nicola Pugliese's Malacqua (Malacqua). It tells a story of Naples over four days when it rains continually and heavily. While this could have…