Juan Cárdenas: Ornamento (Ornamental)
The latest addition to my website is Juan Cárdenas' Ornamento (Ornamental). This is another dystopian novel from Latin America, this one from Colombia. Our unnamed narrator is testing a new…
Rafik Schami: Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (The Dark Side of Love)
The latest addition to my website is Rafik Schami's Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (The Dark Side of Love). Coming in at around 900 pages this may be a suitable…
Dola de Jong: De thuiswacht (The Tree and the Vine)
The latest addition to my website is Dola de Jong's De thuiswacht (The Tree and the Vine). This book became famous as it is about lesbianism at a time (1954)…
Sándor Márai: Bebi, vagy az elsö szerelem [Bebi or First Love]
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's Bebi, vagy az elsö szerelem [Bebi or First Love]. the novel recounts the story of Gaspar, a fifty-four year old Latin…
Gustavo Faverón Patriau: Vivir abajo [Living in the Basement]
The latest addition to my website is Gustavo Faverón Patriau's Vivir abajo [Living in the Basement]. This novel, already declared a key novel of twenty-first century Latin American literature by…
Patrick Modiano: Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (In the Café of Lost Youth)
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (In the Café of Lost Youth). While there are similarities with his other novels,…
Clara Usón: Corazón de napalm [Heart of Napalm]
The latest addition to my website is Clara Usón's Corazón de napalm [Heart of Napalm]. There are two stories going in. The first concerns Fede, an overweight thirteen year old…
Sara Mesa: Cuatro por cuatro (Four by Four)
The latest addition to my website is Sara Mesa's Cuatro por cuatro (Four by Four). This is a somewhat chilling novel. Most of the action takes place in Wybrany College,…
The Independent Publisher Crisis
I have pointed out several times that the most interesting books being published in translation into English are being published by small, independent publishers. While all parts of the book…
Hye Young-Pyun: 선의 법칙 (The Law of Lines)
The latest addition to my website is Hye Young-Pyun's 선의 법칙 (The Law of Lines). This is another first-class novel from the South Korean writer. It tells the tales of…