Stefan Chwin: Hanemann (Death in Danzig)
The latest addition to my website is Stefan Chwin's Hanemann (Death in Danzig). Hanemann whose name is the title in most languages, including the Polish original, is a professor of…
The latest addition to my website is Stefan Chwin's Hanemann (Death in Danzig). Hanemann whose name is the title in most languages, including the Polish original, is a professor of…
The latest addition to my website is Fowzia Karim's Above Us the Milky Way. Fowzia Karimi and her family - parents and five daughters - left Afghanistan in 1980 after…
The latest addition to my website is Eduardo Mendoza's El rey recibe [The King Receives]. This is apparently the first in a trilogy about Spain in the second half of…
The latest addition to my website is Olga Tokarczuk's Księgi Jakubowe (Books of Jacob). When you are self-isolating from a virus, a nearly one thousand page long novel by a…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Un cirque passe (After the Circus). This novel will be familiar territory to those who have read other Modiano novels. It…
The latest addition to my website is Agustina Bazterricas Cadáver exquisito (Tender Is the Flesh). This is a novel about cannibalism, not occasional cannibalism but official, world-wide cannibalism. A virus…
The latest addition to my website is Sergio Bizzio's Borgestein. Enzo, the narrator, is an Argentinian psychiatrist. He is attacked and wounded with a knife by one of his patients,…
The latest addition to my website is Robert Menasse's Die Hauptstadt (Capital). This is a satire on the European Union, its officials and some of the nationalities who are part…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Artforum (Artforum). This is a series of short pieces all linked by the US art magazine Artforum. The narrator is a…
The latest addition to my website is Roger Manderscheid's Feier a Flam [Fire and Flame]. Manderscheid was a Luxembourg writer and he wrote this book in Luxembourgish and then translated…