End of year review 2018
In a recent interview, Pat Barker said Contemporary fiction is going through a “so what” moment, with very few novels generating a real sense of passion in readers and fiction,…
In a recent interview, Pat Barker said Contemporary fiction is going through a “so what” moment, with very few novels generating a real sense of passion in readers and fiction,…
The latest addition to my website is David Toscana's El ejército iluminado (The Enlightened Army). This Mexican novel tells the story of Ignacio Matus who has two bugbears, both concerned…
The latest addition to my website is Dawn Powell's The Locusts Have No King. This is a love story, about the many vicissitudes in the love life of Frederick Olliver,…
The latest addition to my website is Rabeah Ghaffari's To Keep the Sun Alive. This novel has two related stories. The first tells of an extended family in Iran before…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 檀香刑 (Sandalwood Death). This is another fine tale from Mo Yan, about the people of Mo Yan's home town, Northern Gaomi…
The latest addition to my website is Jana Beňová's Preč! Preč! (Away! Away!). This is a short, post-modernist and bitty novel about a Slovak woman, Rosa, who wants away: away…
The latest addition to my website is Yolanda Oreamuno's La ruta de su evasión [The Route of Her Escape]. This is a superb Costa Rican feminist novel, Oreamuno's only published…
The latest addition to my website is Wu Ming's Altai (Altai) . This is another exciting tale from Wu Ming, this one set in sixteenth century Venice and Constantinople. Our…
The latest addition to my website is Emiliano Monge's Las tierras arrasadas (Among the Lost), an unremittingly grim Mexican novel about migration. We follow a day in the life of…
The latest addition to my website is Józef Wittlin's Sól ziemi (The Salt of the Earth). This was originally published in 1935 and originally published in English in 1939 but…