Sara Lidman: Regnspiran (The Rain Bird)
The latest addition to my website is Sara Lidman's Regnspiran (The Rain Bird). The novel tells the story of a small Swedish farming community at the very end of the…
The latest addition to my website is Sara Lidman's Regnspiran (The Rain Bird). The novel tells the story of a small Swedish farming community at the very end of the…
The latest addition to my website is Marilynne Robinson's Jack. This is the fourth book in Robinson's Gilead series. Unlike the others, none of it takes place in Gilead, Iowa,…
The latest addition to my website is Sayaka Murata's 地球星人 (Earthlings). Eleven-year old Natsuki Sasamoto does not get on with her parents or her older sister. Her only escape is…
The latest addition to my website is Siegfried Lenz's Der Überläufer (The Turncoat). This novel was originally written in 1951, Lenz's second novel. However, it was not published then, partially…
The latest addition to my website is Shalom Auslander's Mother for Dinner. This is a wickedly funny satire on identity politics and racism. Our hero is Seventh Seltzer and he…
The latest addition to my website is Francis Nenik's Reise durch ein tragikomisches Jahrhundert (Journey Through a Tragicomic Century). The book is a narrative non-fiction. It is the biography of…
The latest addition to my website is Miljenko Jergović's Buick Riviera [Buick Riviera]. Hassan is a mild-mannered low key Bosnian Muslim who fled Bosnia as the war was starting and…
The latest addition to my website is Jóusè d’Arbaud (aka Joseph d’Arbaud)'s La bèstio dóu Vacarés (The Beast and Other Tales). The title story is set in fifteenth century Provence…
The latest addition to my website is Narcís Oller's La bogeria (The Madness). This is a short novel set in the late nineteenth century about a Catalan engineer and landowner…
The latest addition to my website is Ivan Vladislavic's The Distance. This novel tells the story of two brothers, Branko and Joe, growing up and living as adults in Pretoria.…