Sakinu Ahronglong: 山豬 (Hunter School)
The latest addition to my website is Sakinu Ahronglong's 山豬 (Hunter School). Ahronglong belongs to the Paiwan people, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan and this is basically his…
The latest addition to my website is Sakinu Ahronglong's 山豬 (Hunter School). Ahronglong belongs to the Paiwan people, one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan and this is basically his…
The latest addition to my website is José de Almada Negreiros' Nome de Guerra [Nom de Guerre]. This is a Bildungsroman but also a mocking of the conventional romantic novel.…
The latest addition to my website is Martín Caparrós'Sinfin [Endless]. The key theme of the book is immortality. We follow the development from the present time to 2072 of a…
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's A zendülők (The Rebels). The book is set in May 1918. Four young men have just finished school and are waiting…
The latest addition to my website is Leylâ Erbil's Tuhaf Bir Kadın (A Strange Woman). This is a feminist novel about Nermin, who is nineteen in 1950 and struggles both…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood). This one starts…
The latest addition to my website is Olja Knežević's Katarina, velika i mala (Catherine, Great and Small). It tells the story of Catherine (Katarina), a Montenegrin who grows up in…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's Margarita. This is not one of Aira's best. The narrator, presumably based at least in part on Aira himself, is, just…
The latest addition to my website is Bernard Chambaz's Vladimir Vladimirovitch. This is a novel about Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, both of them. The narrator, called Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, is a…
The latest addition to my website is Amanda Michalopoulou's Η γυναίκα του Θεού (God’s Wife). This is, indeed, the story of a fairly ordinary young woman (aged seventeen) who marries…