Hye Young-Pyun: 홀 (The Hole)
The latest addition to my website is Hye Young-Pyun's 홀 (The Hole), a disturbing Korean novel about a paralysed man. Oghi has a successful career as a professor of cartography,…
The latest addition to my website is Hye Young-Pyun's 홀 (The Hole), a disturbing Korean novel about a paralysed man. Oghi has a successful career as a professor of cartography,…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Embalse [Reservoir]. This is another first-class novel by Aira, telling about a couple from Buenos Aires holidaying in a remote Argentinian…
The latest addition to my website is Dubravka Ugrešić's Forsiranje romana-reke (Fording the Stream of Consciousness). This is a wonderful, witty satire on literary conferences. The setting is a literary…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's Autumn. This is the first in Ali Smith's four Seasons series of novels and, apparently, the first post-Brexit novel. It tells…
Yesterday I wrote a post on Javier Pedro Zabala's The Mad Patagonian in which I felt that the novel was not entirely what it purported to be, i.e. a translation…
A couple of days ago, I posted a review of a book called The Mad Patagonian by an unknown Cuban author called Javier Pedro Zabala. The book was 1200+ pages…
The latest addition to my website is Sam Coll's The Abode of Fancy. This is a first novel by an Irishman, who certainly mines Irish literary traditions. It tells the…
The latest addition to my website is Hariton Pushwagner's Soft City. This is the first graphic novel on my website, the only graphic novel by Norwegian artist, Hariton Pushwagner. With…
The latest addition to my website is Javier Pedro Zabala's The Mad Patagonian. This novel was not published in the author's lifetime and, indeed though it was written in Spanish,…
The latest addition to my website is Mo Yan's 红高粱家族 (Red Sorghum). This is a very colourful novel, set in Mo Yan's home town, from the late 1920s to the…