Adania Shibli: وسفر الاختفاءتفصيل ثانوي (Minor Detail)
The latest addition to my website is Adania Shibli's وسفر الاختفاءتفصيل ثانوي (Minor Detail). This book has been in the news recently (October 2023) as Shibli and her book were…
Jon Fosse: Trilogien (Trilogy)
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Trilogien (Trilogy). This work consists of three linked novels. We start with Alida and Asle. Both are seventeen. Asle's father is…
Jon Fosse: Kvitleik (A Shining)
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Kvitleik (A Shining). A man who lives alone drives his car into a forest and gets stuck. There has been no…
Stella Gaitano: رواح إدو (Edo’s Souls)
The latest addition to my website is Stella Gaitano's رواح إدو (Edo’s Souls).This is the story of South Sudan, with the background being the upheavals that led to South Sudan…
Patrick Modiano: La Danseuse [The Dancer]
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano's La Danseuse [The Dancer]. Modiano's latest follows the basic plot line of many of his earlier novels. A young man, presumably…
Sara Gallardo: Enero (January)
The latest addition to my website is Sara Gallardo's Enero (January). The novel is set on an Argentinian farm and we follow the story of the just sixteen Nefer, the…
Rupert Thomson: Dartmouth Park
The latest addition to my website is Rupert Thomson's Dartmouth Park. Our narrator is Philip Notman, a fifty-something historian. At the beginning of the book he is attending a conference…
Carmine Abate: Il ballo tondo (The Round Dance)
The latest addition to my website is Carmine Abate's Il ballo tondo (The Round Dance). Abate comes from the Arbëreshë community, descendants of Albanians who fled the Ottomans between between…
Rosemary Tonks: The Halt during the Chase
The latest addition to my website is Rosemary Tonks' The Halt during the Chase. This novel wittily tells the story of a few eccentric characters in the London suburb of…