Robert Coover: Open House
The latest addition to my website is Robert Coover's Open House. There is a party going on in the penthouse suite in a Manhattan high-rise but nobody know who is…
Kōbō Abe: 燃えつきた地図 (The Ruined Map)
The latest addition to my website is Kōbō Abe's 燃えつきた地図 (The Ruined Map). On the face if it this is the story of a detective looking for a missing person.…
Fausta Cialente: Ballata Levantina (The Levantines)
The latest addition to my website is Fausta Cialente's Ballata Levantina (The Levantines). This novel tells the story of well-to-do European expatriates (primarily but certainly not exclusively Italian) living in…
Ismail Kadare: Darka e gabuar (The Fall of the Stone City)
The latest addition to my website is Ismail Kadare's Darka e gabuar (The Fall of the Stone City). This novel is set in the Kadare's home town of Gjirokastër. The…
Gervasio Posadas: El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant
The latest addition to my website is Gervasio Posadas' El mentalista de Hitler The Clairvoyant. This is the story of the very real Erik Jan Hanussen. He was an Austrian…
Chris McCabe: Dedalus
The latest addition to my website is Chris McCabe's Dedalus. McCabe is a modern poet but he has written a novel which is a homage to James Joyce, a sequel…
Eric Lane: Dante Alighieri’s Publishing Company
The latest addition to my website is Eric Lane's Dante Alighieri's Publishing Company. This book is a witty and colourful account of how Eric Lane, publisher of Dedalus Books, founded…
Mia Couto: O Bebedor de horizonte (The Drinker of Horizons)
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's O Bebedor de horizonte (The Drinker of Horizons). This is the final book in his Sands of the Emperor trilogy about…
Ellis Sharp: Concrete Impressions
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Concrete Impressions. This is a wickedly funny post-modern satire, bashing non-post-modern novelists, politicians, the upwardly mobile rich, Zionists, the media, the…
Mia Couto: A Espada e a Azagaia (The Sword and the Spear)
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's A Espada e a Azagaia (The Sword and the Spear). This the second book in his Sands of the Emperor trilogy…