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Juan Cárdenas: Ornamento (Ornamental)

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  • Post published:28 May 2020
  • Post category:Colombia/Dystopia/The Modern Novel website
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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…

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Rafik Schami: Die dunkle Seite der Liebe (The Dark Side of Love)

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  • Post published:27 May 2020
  • Post category:Syria/The Modern Novel website
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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…

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Dola de Jong: De thuiswacht (The Tree and the Vine)

  • Post author:tmn
  • Post published:22 May 2020
  • Post category:Lesbianism/Netherlands/The Modern Novel website/Women/World War II
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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)…

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Sándor Márai: Bebi, vagy az elsö szerelem [Bebi or First Love]

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  • Post published:21 May 2020
  • Post category:Hungary/The Modern Novel website
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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…

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Gustavo Faverón Patriau: Vivir abajo [Living in the Basement]

  • Post author:tmn
  • Post published:18 May 2020
  • Post category:Peru/The Modern Novel website
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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…

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Patrick Modiano: Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue (In the Café of Lost Youth)

  • Post author:tmn
  • Post published:13 May 2020
  • Post category:France/The Modern Novel website
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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,…

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Clara Usón: Corazón de napalm [Heart of Napalm]

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  • Post published:12 May 2020
  • Post category:Art/Spain/The Modern Novel website/Women
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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…

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Sara Mesa: Cuatro por cuatro (Four by Four)

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  • Post published:9 May 2020
  • Post category:Dystopia/Spain/The Modern Novel website/Women
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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,…

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The Independent Publisher Crisis

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  • Post published:8 May 2020
  • Post category:Bookshop/Publishing
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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…

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Hye Young-Pyun: 선의 법칙 (The Law of Lines)

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  • Post published:6 May 2020
  • Post category:South Korea/The Modern Novel website
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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…

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