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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Hain [Grove]. LikeAm Fluss (River), her previous work - this novel is about the travels of an unnamed narrator, clearly Kinsky…
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Hayy-ibn-Yakzan (Of Strangers and-Bees). This is another superb book from Hamid Ismailov, the Uzbek novelist, about exile and, indeed about bees.…
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo Márquez Tizano's Yakarta (Jakarta). This is a dystopian novel from Mexico, describing a country called Atlantika, where a horrible epidemic, with the…
The latest addition to my website is Maik Nwosu's Alpha Song. Our hero, a Nigerian who adopts the name Taneba Taneba when he is estranged from his father's family, never…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Princesa primavera [Princess Springtime]. This is something of a subversion of the traditional fairy tale. The eponymous princess lives in a…