Soledad Puértolas: Burdeos (Bordeaux)
The latest addition to my website is Soledad Puértolas' Burdeos (Bordeaux). The novel tells three stories, with several of the characters appearing in two or all three stories. The first…
The latest addition to my website is Soledad Puértolas' Burdeos (Bordeaux). The novel tells three stories, with several of the characters appearing in two or all three stories. The first…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El volante [The Flyer]. This is another novel from Aira which starts in a fairly straightforward manner and then veers off,…
The latest addition to my website is Irina Odoevtseva:'s Изольда (Isolde). This book was first published in 1929 and was condemned by Odoevtseva's fellow Russian émigré writers, including Nabokov, as…
The latest addition to my website is Sara Stridsberg's Drömfakulteten (UK: Faculty of Dreams; US: Valerie) . The US title - Valerie - gives a much better idea of the…
The latest addition to my website is Paul Gadenne's Les Hauts-Quartiers [The Upper Districts]. This novel was published seventeen years after Gadenne's death and has not been translated into any…
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Orbitor Vol 1, Aripa stângă (Blinding – The Left Wing), the first book in a trilogy (and the only one of…
The latest addition to my website is Yuz Aleshkovsky's Николай Николаевич (Nikolai Nikolaevich) and Маскировка (Camouflage), published in the same volume in both Russian and English. Both are distinguished by…
The latest addition to my website is Shi Tiesheng's 我的丁一之旅 (My Travels in Ding Yi). This was Shi Tiesheng's final book and he packed a lot into it. The story…
While we had visited nearby Charleston, home of the Bloomsbury set a couple of times, we had never visited nearby (six miles distance) Monk's House. till now Virginia and Leonard…
The latest addition to my website is Andrej Nikolaidis'The Olcinium Trilogy ((Sin (The Son), Dolazak (The Coming), Devet (Till Kingdom Come)). This is a superb trilogy of novels, related but…