Magda Szabó: Katalin utca (Katalin Street)
The latest addition to my website is Magda Szabó's Katalin utca (Katalin Street). This is a new translation (September 2017) replacing the one from 2005. It tells the story of…
The latest addition to my website is Magda Szabó's Katalin utca (Katalin Street). This is a new translation (September 2017) replacing the one from 2005. It tells the story of…
The latest addition to my website is Vasil Bykaŭ's Альпийская баллада (Alpine Ballad). This is a new translation, from the original Belarusian, a distinct improvement on the previous translation from…
The latest addition to my website is Lars Mytting's Svøm med dem som drukner (The Sixteen Trees of the Somme). This is a very well-told tale by the author of…
The latest addition to my website is Nicole Krauss' Forest Dark. This is another superb novel from Krauss, telling two parallel stories. One is about Jules Epstein, a sixty-eight year…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Walser's Der Gehülfe (The Assistant). This is the second book published by Walser (the third he wrote) and is based on his…
The latest addition to my website is Fiona Mozley's Elmet. There have been a lot of interesting novels coming out recently from young British women. I recently read Adelle Stripe's…
The latest addition to my website is Joyce Cary's The Horse’s Mouth. This is the third book in Cary's first trilogy and far the best-known, primarily because of the character…
The latest addition to my website is Nicole Krauss' The History of Love. This is an excellent book about creativity and authorship, about the Holocaust and about who we are.…
If you have poked around my website, you might be aware that every book, as well as being listed under the country/author, is also listed chronologically, so that you can…
The latest addition to my website is Jean Giono's Que ma joie demeure (Joy of Man’s Desiring). This is an unusual book for Giono, as it flirts with fantasy. It…