Walter Kappacher: Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies)
The latest addition to my website is Walter Kappacher's Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies) the novel is set over ten days in August 1924 in the Austrian mountain resort of…
The latest addition to my website is Walter Kappacher's Der Fliegenpalast (Palace of Flies) the novel is set over ten days in August 1924 in the Austrian mountain resort of…
The latest addition to my website is Joaquim Ruyra's Jacobé & Fineta This collection consists of two short stories but very well worth reading . Jacobé tells of a girl…
The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's Сердца Четырех (Their Four Hearts). This is the first of apparently eight Sorokin novels that will come out in English translation…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick McCabe's Poguemahone. The title is the Irish for kiss my arse. Our main characters are Una and Dan Fogarty Now (2019) Una…
The latest addition to my website is Erlend O. Nødtvedt's Vestlandet [Westland]. This is about a road trip made by the author and his friend the painter Ingve Pedersen. In…
The latest addition to my website is Masatsugu Ono's 森のはずれで (At the Edge of the Woods). An unnamed family - husband, pregnant wife and young son, possibly Japanese - move…
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Canzone di guerra. Our narrator is Tea Radan, a Croatian single mother who has emigrated to Çanada. In a series of…
The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's День опричника (Day of the Oprichnik). This novel is set a few years in the future. Russia now has a Tsar…
Ukrainian literature did not start with the breakup of the Soviet Union though novelists writing in Ukrainian certainly came to the fore post-the Soviet Union. However before looking at the…
The latest addition to my website is Ali Smith's Companion Piece. As the title implies, this is an appendage to her brilliant Seasons tetralogy and is somewhat similar, in that…