Clarice Lispector: O lustre (The Chandelier)
The latest addition to my website is Clarice Lispector's O lustre (The Chandelier). This is Lispector's second novel, written when she was in her early twenties, and now published in…
The latest addition to my website is Clarice Lispector's O lustre (The Chandelier). This is Lispector's second novel, written when she was in her early twenties, and now published in…
The latest addition to my website is Miklós Szentkuthy's Fekete Reneszánsz (Black Renaissance). This is the second in his St Orpheus Breviary series. It has not yet been translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' L’Île du Point Némo (Island of Point Nemo). Like his earlier work, this is a madcap romp, with adventures,…
The latest addition to my website is Gloria Guardia's Tiniebla blanca [White Darkness]. The unnamed narrator, like Guardia, is a Panamanian student at Vassar College. One evening, while in New…
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Jinlar Bazmi (The Devil’s Dance). It tells the story of the last nine months of the life of Uzbek writer Abdulla…
The latest addition to my website is Rana Haddad:'s The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor. This is the first novel by a Syrian woman who has spent her adult…
The latest addition to my website is Ricardo Piglia's Plata quemada (Money to Burn. This is a novelised account of an actual robbery from a bank armoured car in Buenos…
The latest addition to my website is Paolo Cognetti's Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains), which won the prestigious Strega Prize in Italy. It tells the story of Pietro, only…
The latest addition to my website is J. G. Farrell's Troubles. This novel, which won the Lost Man Booker Prize more than thirty years after the author's death, is the…
The latest addition to my website is Chico Buarque's Leite Derramado (Spilt Milk). The book is narrated by a hundred-year old Brazilian man, who is lying in a hospital bed…