Clemens Meyer: Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming)
The latest addition to my website is Clemens Meyer's Als wir träumten (While We Were Dreaming). This was the first of his novels published in German but the second to…
Belén Gopegui:Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo ( Stay This Day And Night With Me)
The latest addition to my website is Belén Gopegui's Quédate este día y esta noche conmigo ( Stay This Day And Night With Me). This is a novel about Google.…
Maki Kashimada: 六〇〇〇度の愛 (Love at Six Thousand Degrees)
The latest addition to my website is Maki Kashimada's 六〇〇〇度の愛 (Love at Six Thousand Degrees). This is something of a Japanese response to the film Hiroshima mon amour, scripted by…
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky: Странствующее Странно (Stravaging Strange)
The latest addition to my website is Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky's Странствующее Странно (Stravaging Strange). Stravage is an old Irisih/Scottish word meaning wandering aimlessly. This book consists of three stories (plus a…
Miquel de Palol: El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights)
The latest addition to my website is Miquel de Palol's El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights). This is the first novel by the major Catalan writer…
Ukrainian Literature Part 2
Having just read twenty Ukrainian novels in a row does not really entitle me to make any major judgements about the country or its literature. Nevertheless I shall make a…
Eugenia Kononenko: Російський сюжет (A Russian Story)
The latest addition to my website is Eugenia Kononenko's Російський сюжет (A Russian Story). This is the last in my Ukrainian marathon and, despite the title, certainly one that deals…
Alexei Nikitin: Истеми (Y.T)
The latest addition to my website is Alexei Nikitin's Истеми (Y.T). In 1984 five students play a war game which involve inventing countries and transposing real historical characters to other…
Marjana Gaponenko: Wer ist Martha? (Who is Martha?)
The latest addition to my website is Marjana Gaponenko's Wer ist Martha? (Who is Martha?). Our hero is Luka Levadski. He is a ninety-six year old Ukrainian ornithologist. He has…
Maria Matios: Солодка Даруся (Sweet Darusya)
The latest addition to my website is Maria Matios's Солодка Даруся (Sweet Darusya). The novel is set among the Hutsul people in the Carpathians and is told in reverse chronological…