Sonallah Ibrahim: العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat)
The latest addition to my website is Sonallah Ibrahim's العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat). The novel takes place during the French occupation of Egypt from 1798 to 1801.…
The latest addition to my website is Sonallah Ibrahim's العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat). The novel takes place during the French occupation of Egypt from 1798 to 1801.…
The latest addition to my website is Sylvie Germain's Jours de colère (Days of Anger). This book, a reissue by publishers Dedalus, is a classic modern French novel, mixing Gothic…
The latest addition to my website is Georges Magnane's Où l'herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows). The novel is a fictionalised account of a historical event…
The latest addition to my website is Brenda Lozano's Brujas (Witches). We follow the story of three Mexican women. Paloma is, in fact, a muxe, assigned male at birth but…
The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sorokin's Теллурия (Telluria). This novel is set in a future where Russia and Europe have splintered into smaller states and seem to…
The latest addition to my website is Salvador Elizondo's El hipogeo secreto (The Secret Crypt). The novel is about a writer called Salvador Elizondo who is writing a book called…
The latest addition to my website is Sergey Kuznetsov's Хоровод воды (The Round Dance of Water). This is a novel that tells the story of an extended family, from the…
The latest addition to my website is Eva Baltasar's Boulder (Boulder). Our narrator works as a mess-hall cook in various places in Chile, getting a job on a freighter early…
The latest addition to my website is Jordi Cussà's Cavalls salvatges (Wild Horses). The story shows that in many small towns in Catalonia in the 1980s, most young people were…
The latest addition to my website is Juan Pablo Villalobos' La invasión del pueblo del espíritu (Invasion of the Spirit People) . Set in an unnamed city but almost certainly…