Maria Judite de Carvalho: Os Armários Vazios (Empty Wardrobes)
The latest addition to my website is Maria Judite de Carvalho's Os Armários Vazios (Empty Wardrobes). The novel tells the story of Dora Rosário, who marries Duarte young and has…
Sarah Hall: Burntcoat
The latest addition to my website is Sarah Hall's Burntcoat. Our heroine is Edith Harknesss. We follow her life from when she was ten and her mother, a successful novelist,…
Hanne Ørstavik: Presten (The Pastor)
The latest addition to my website is Hanne Ørstavik's Presten (The Pastor). The eponymous pastor is Liv. She had worked in southern Germany where she had befriended Kristiane but when…
Nobel Prize for Literature to Abdulrazak Gurnah
Well, nobody expected that! I am glad to say that I have read three of Abdulrazak Gurnah's work and enjoyed it. It was, of course, about time an African won…
Petra Hůlová: Stručné dějiny Hnutí (The Movement)
The latest addition to my website is Petra Hůlová's Stručné dějiny Hnutí (The Movement). This is a feminist dystopian novel. In this New World, men are sent to a institute…
Ana Schnabl: Mojstrovina (The Masterpiece)
The latest addition to my website is Ana Schnabl's Mojstrovina (The Masterpiece). The novel is set primarily in 1985, five years after Tito's death but with Slovenia still part of…
Nabile Farès: La Découverte du nouveau monde (Discovery of the New World)
The latest addition to my website is Nabile Farès'La Découverte du nouveau monde (Discovery of the New World). This is a trilogy of books first published French in the 1970s.…
Vladimir Sharov: Будьте как дети (Be As Children)
The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sharov's Будьте как дети (Be As Children) . This is the third of Sharov's novels to be translated into English and, in…
Sara Stridsberg: Kärlekens Antarktis (Antarctica of Love)
The latest addition to my website is Sara Stridsberg's . This is one of those novels where the narrator is dead. Kristine, drug addict and prostitute, but also mother, sister…