David Albahari: Kontrolni punkt (Checkpoint)
The latest addition to my website is David Albahari's Kontrolni punkt (Checkpoint). The novel tells about a platoon of soldiers sent to man a barrier on the top of the…
The latest addition to my website is David Albahari's Kontrolni punkt (Checkpoint). The novel tells about a platoon of soldiers sent to man a barrier on the top of the…
The latest addition to my website is Emmanuel Carrère's La Moustache (The Moustache). The unnamed hero of this novel decides one day to shave off his moustache to surprise his…
The latest addition to my website is Pat Barker's The Silence of the Girls. This is a feminist retelling of the Trojan War, based primarily on The Iliad. It is…
The latest addition to my website is Wu Ming's 54 (54). Wu Ming is an Italian collective (five men) and this novel is as the title tells us, set primarily…
The latest addition to my website is Yan Lianke's 日熄 (The Day the Sun Died). This tells the story of the village of Gaotian, which happens to be the village…
The latest addition to my website is Nicole Lundrigan's Unraveling Arva. Set in Newfoundland, Lundrigan's home province, this novel tells the story of Arva House. Both parents drowned, her father,…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's La prueba (The Proof). This is another Aira novel where you wonder what is going happening for the first part and…
The latest additon to my website is Mariko Ōhara's ハイブリッド・チャイルド (Hybrid Child). This is a science fiction novel, the second in the University of Minnesota's Parallel Futures series and tells…
The latest addition to my website is Kirmen Uribe's Bilbao-New York-Bilbao (Bilbao-New York-Bilbao). This is a Basque novel, which is not really a novel and is not really about travel…
The latest addition to my website is Alfredo Navarro Salanga's The Birthing of Hannibal Valdez This short novel from the Philippines tells the story not so much of Hannibal Valdez…