Edward Upward: The Rotten Elements
The latest addition to my website is Edward Upward's The Rotten Elements, the second in his Spiral Ascent Trilogy, about communism in Britain in the middle of the last century.…
César Aira: El pequeño monje budista (The Little Buddhist Monk)
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El pequeño monje budista (The Little Buddhist Monk). This, as is usual with Aira, starts off reasonably conventionally and then gradually…
Dubravka Ugrešić: Muzej bezuvjetne predaje (The Museum of Unconditional Surrender)
The latest addition to my website is Dubravka Ugrešić's Muzej bezuvjetne predaje (The Museum of Unconditional Surrender). This is another first-class novel from Ugrešić about her favourite topics: exile, the…
Daša Drndić: Doppelgänger
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Doppelgänger. This book actually has two novellas: Doppelgänger and Pupi. Doppelgänger is about an elderly couple who meet on New Year's…
Hwang Sok-yong: 해질무렵 (At Dusk)
The latest addition to my website is Hwang Sok-yong's 해질무렵 (At Dusk). This is a superb book about an architect who, though successful, is a bit lost in his life,…
Dawn Powell: A Time to Be Born
The latest addition to my website is Dawn Powell's A Time to Be Born. This is was Powell's first commercially successful novel and it is easy to see why, as…
Rita Indiana: La mucama de Omicunlé (Tentacle)
The latest addition to my website is Rita Indiana's La mucama de Omicunlé (Tentacle). This is a wonderful post-apocalyptic novel from the Dominican Republic, set both a short time into…
Mo Yan: 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads)
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 天堂蒜薹之歌 (The Garlic Ballads). This is a thoroughly grim tale set in Mo Yan's usual Northeast Gaorni Township. We follow two…
Heinrich Eggerth: Die Papierrose [The Paper Rose]
The latest addition to my website is Heinrich Eggerth's Die Papierrose [The Paper Rose]. It is narrated by a man whose almost ten year old daughter has died of a…
A L Kennedy: The Little Snake
The latest addition to my website is A L Kennedy's The Little Snake, a children's fable for adults, in the style of Le petit prince (The Little Prince). The eponymous…