Olga Tokarczuk: Bieguni (Flights)
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni (Flights). The Polish title refers to a sect of Old Believers who believed that they should run away from anti-Christian…
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Bieguni (Flights). The Polish title refers to a sect of Old Believers who believed that they should run away from anti-Christian…
The latest addition to my website is Peter Adolphsen's Machine (Machine). This is another short but very inventive novel from Adolphsen. We follow the life of an oil molecule, from…
The latest addition to my website is Sergio Chejfec's Los incompletos (The Incompletes). This is a decidedly strange novel. The unnamed narrator tells of his friend Felix, who has decided…
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Orbitor Vol 3, Aripa dreaptă [Blinding – The Right Wing]. This is the third book in his Orbitor (Blinding) trilogy. This…
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Dom dzienny, dom nocny (House of Day, House of Night). The novel is set in the Polish town of Nowa Ruda,…
The latest addition to my site is Eduardo Mendoza's El laberinto de las aceitunas (Olive Labyrinth). This is a follow-up to his El misterio de la cripta embrujada (Mystery of…
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Prawiek i inne czasy (Primeval and Other Times). This is the second of Tokarczuk's novels published in English. It tells the…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Villa Triste (Villa Triste). Set primarily in 1960, in a town near the Franco-Swiss border which seems to be Annecy, it…
The latest addition to my website is Lucy Ellmann's Ducks, Newburyport. This is a very long (1020 pages), post-modern novel. Much of it consists of a single sentence, detailing the…