End of year review 2019
As the world seems to get worse and worse, reading books seems increasingly to be the best escape. It has been helped (for me) this year by the fact that…
As the world seems to get worse and worse, reading books seems increasingly to be the best escape. It has been helped (for me) this year by the fact that…
The latest addition to my website is Mircea Cărtărescu's Travesti [Travesty]. The novel is narrated by the thirty-four year old Victor, a successful writer but with a troubled mind, clearly…
The latest addition to my website is Magda Szabó's Abigél (Abigail). This first appeared in Hungary fifty years ago where it has been Szabó's most popular novel. It is set…
Latest on my website: Amélie Nothomb's Les prénoms épicènes [The Epicene First Names]. This is a Nothomb parable, telling the tale of a couple with epicene first names, (names which…
The latest addition to my website is Sara Lidman's Tjärdalen [The Tar Still]. This is Lidman's first novel, telling the story of a remote Swedish village. Nils has spent a…
The latest addition to my website is A. G. Porta's Me llamo Vila-Matas, como todo el mundo [My Name is Vila-Matas, Like Everyone. This is a short absurdist book, consisting…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' Esta bruma insensata [That Mindless Mist]. This is Vila-Matas on form with his intellectual, literary, post-modern games. We follow the story…
The latest addition to my website is Eduardo Mendoza's Una comedia ligera (A Light Comedy) . It set in the late 1940s, in and around Barcelona, as with most of…
The latest addition to my website is Ibtisam Azem's وسفر الاختفاء (The Book of Disappearance). The book is set primarily in Jaffa. Alaa is a Palestinian who works as a…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Quartier perdu (A Trace of Malice). This has several of Modiano's favourite themes - looking for the past, finding Paris has…