Sándor Márai: Eszter hagyatéka (Esther’s Inheritance)
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's Eszter hagyatéka (Esther’s Inheritance). Esther is in her late forties and lives alone with an elderly aunt. She has only ever…
The latest addition to my website is Sándor Márai's Eszter hagyatéka (Esther’s Inheritance). Esther is in her late forties and lives alone with an elderly aunt. She has only ever…
The latest addition to my website is David Mitchell's Utopia Avenue. The story starts in January 1967 in London and tells how a group is formed by a Canadian manager…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's Encre sympathique [Invisible Ink]. Our hero/narrator is Jean Eyben. He is a would-be writer but works at a detective agency to…
The latest addition to my website is Ruxandra Cesereanu's Angelus (Angelus). Three angels arrive in Metropolis, the capital of Homeland. They seem harmless but they are also mute. What do…
The latest addition to my website is Rollan Seisenbayev's Мертвые бродят в песках (The Dead Wander in the Desert). The Aral Sea used to be the fourth largest lake in…
The latest addition to my website is Georges Perec's L’Attentat de Sarajevo [The Sarajevo Assassination]. This is Perec's first (written) novel. It was believed lost and only found and published…
The latest addition to my website is Fernando Contreras Castro's Única mirando al mar (Única Looking at the Sea). It tells the story of a group of scavengers (they are…
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El divorcio (The Divorce). The book is about a lot of things but not divorce, except for the title and the…
The latest addition to my website is Boris Poplavsky's Аполлон Безобразов (Apollon Bezobrazov). The book was written in the 1930s but only a few chapters were published in an émigré…
Last year I read and reviewed Miloš Crnjanski's Roman o Londonu (Novel of London). This book is a classic of Serbian literature, a literature virtually unknown in the English-speaking world.…