Hamid Ismailov: Ялмоғиз Гея ё мўр-малаҳ маликаси (Gaia)
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Ялмоғиз Гея ё мўр-малаҳ маликаси (Gaia). This is another wonderful book from Hamid Iamailov, the Uzbek author resident in the UK.…
Miloš Crnjanski: Seobe (Migrations)
The latest addition to my website is Miloš Crnjanski (Mils Tsernianski)s Seobe (Migrations). This novel is set during the 1744 campaign of the War of the Austrian Succession and involves…
Sema Kaygusuz: Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend)
The latest addition to my website is the Sema Kaygusuz's Yüzünde Bir Yer (Every Fire You Tend). This is an intense feminist Turkish novel, whose starting point is Dersim rebellion…
Eduardo Mendoza: Sin noticias de Gurb (No Word from Gurb)
The latest addition to my website is Eduardo Mendoza's Sin noticias de Gurb (No Word from Gurb). This follows Mendoza's usual pattern, in that we see Barcelona and its inhabitants…
Nino Haratischwili: Das achte Leben (The Eighth Life)
The latest addition to my website is Nino Haratischwili's Das achte Leben (The Eighth Life). This is a monumental Georgian novel that tells the story of several generations of a…
Konstantin Paustovsky: Кара-Бугаз (The Black Gulf)
The latest addition to my website is Konstantin Paustovsky's Кара-Бугаз (The Black Gulf). Paustovsky is best-known in English and in Russian for his six-volume autobiography Повестью о жизни (Story of…
Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder)
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder). Our narrator (presumably Modiano himself) comes across a 1941 newspaper announcement about a…
Piero Chiara: La stanza del vescovo (The Bishop’s Bedroom)
The latest addition to my website is Piero Chiara's La stanza del vescovo (The Bishop’s Bedroom). This book, now published in English for the first time forty-three after it was…
Alberto Fuguet: Mala onda (Bad Vibes)
The latest addition to my website is Alberto Fuguet's Mala onda (Bad Vibes). This novel had considerable influence in Chile, dealing as it does, with a rebel without a cause,…
Johannes Anyuru: De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar (They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears)
The latest addition to my website is Johannes Anyuru's De kommer att drunkna i sina mödrars tårar (They Will Drown in Their Mothers’ Tears). Anyuru is Swedish but with a…