Llorenç Villalonga: Mort de dama [Death of a Lady]
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Mort de dama [Death of a Lady]. This was Villalonga's first book and was a wicked satire on the Mallorcan upper…
The latest addition to my website is Llorenç Villalonga's Mort de dama [Death of a Lady]. This was Villalonga's first book and was a wicked satire on the Mallorcan upper…
The latest addition to my website is Zülfü Livaneli's Huzursuzluk (Disquiet). A Turkish, Istanbul-based journalist, Ibrahim, learns that Hussein, whom he knew as a child when they were growing up…
The latest addition to my website is Yan Lianke's 堅硬如水 (Hard Like Water). This story is set primarily in the village of Chenggang during the Cultural Revolution but this is…
The latest addition to my website is Miljenko Jergović's Rod (Kin). This is an 800-page family novel, as the author calls it, but do not let that put you off.…
We managed to travel further afield than the neighbouring town for the first time for a while this week and headed down to Dorset for a long break. En route…
The latest addition to my website is Mohamed Kheir's عباصلأا تلافإة (Slipping). This book is seemingly a book of separate stories but, gradually, they nearly all get some connection to…
The latest addition to my website is Dag Solstad's Ellevte roman, bok atten (Novel 11, Book 18). This book tells the story of Bjørn Hansen, a man with a successful…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Neglected Writer. The eponymous neglected writer may well refer to Sharp himself, a British experimental writer who is still relatively unknown.…
The latest addition to my website is Emilio Fraia's Sevastopol (Sevastopol). This consists of three linked stories inspired by Tolstoy's Sevastopol Sketches, though only one is actually set (in part)…