Boualem Sansal: Rue Darwin
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's Rue Darwin. This is a superb work by Sansal which tells the story of Yazid, an Algerian, the same age as…
The latest addition to my website is Boualem Sansal's Rue Darwin. This is a superb work by Sansal which tells the story of Yazid, an Algerian, the same age as…
The latest addition to my website is Ricardo Piglia's La ciudad ausente (The Absent City). This is a complex novel - a detective story, a political novel, a Joycean extravaganza,…
The latest addition to my website is Zigmunds Skujiņš' Vīrietis labākajos gados (A Man in His Prime). This is one of two novels written by Skujiņš translated into English from…
The latest addition to my website is Dumitru Tsepeneag's La belle Roumaine (La Belle Roumaine). This is another totally anarchic and gloriously funny novel from Tsepeneag. The eponymous beautiful Romanian…
The latest addition to my website is Javier Marías' Berta Isla. This is, in my view, by far his masterpiece. It tells the story of Tomás, half-English, half-Spanish, with a…
There is no reason why you would have noticed but yesterday this blog and my main website switched from http to https. If you are a user, your links, bookmarks,…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Walser's Der Spaziergang (The Walk). This simply tells the story of a writer out for a walk in a provincial Swiss town.…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Frappe-toi le coeur [Strike Your Heart], her latest annual novel. This is something of a change from her normal style, as…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's La liebre (The Hare). If you know and love Aira, as I do, you will know what to expect: the Southern…
The latest addition to my website is Kate Roberts' Y Byw Sy’n Cysgu (The Living Sleep; later: The Awakening). This is a feminist novel, telling the story of Lora Ffennig,…