Antonio Muñoz Molina: Tus pasos en la escalera (Your Steps on the Stairs)
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Month: April 2025
Alexei Ivanov:Пищеблок The Food Block)
The latest addition to my website isAlexei Ivanov‘s Пищеблок The Food Block). The novel is set in 1980 in a remote Soviet pioneer camp on the Volga. Our two heroes are Igor Korzukhin, a team leader, and Valerka, a young pioneer. The pioneers indulge in various activities but first Valerka Lagunov and then Igor discover … Read more
Sylvain Trudel:Le Souffle de l’harmattan (The Harmattan Winds)
The latest addition to my website is Sylvain Trudel‘s Le Souffle de l’harmattan (The Harmattan Winds). Set in Quebec, our hero Hugues is a foundling, unsure of his origins, except he seems to have almond eyes. He is influenced by the poems of a deceased and fictitious poet called Desuet and a fellow orphan, Habeke … Read more
Magdalena Blažević: U kasno ljeto (In Late Summer)
The latest addition to my website is Magdalena Blažević‘s U kasno ljeto (In Late Summer). The novel, narrated by a girl called Ivana, is set in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Ivana. Neither Bosnia nor the war are specifically mentioned. Ivana and her family live in an agricultural village, where life goes on smoothly, people … Read more
José Eduardo Agualusa: Os Vivos e os Outros (The Living and The Rest)
The latest addition to my website is José Eduardo Agualusa‘s Os Vivos e os Outros (The Living and The Rest) The book involves an African literary conference taking place on lha de Moçambique) , a resort island off the coast of Mozambique. The writers are all African, primarily fictitious. They discuss issues such what it … Read more
Susan Daitch: The Adjudicator
< The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch‘s The Adjudicator. The novel is set sometime in the future with babies made to order in a genetics facility, thereby eliminating most diseases, mental and physical. However sometimes things go wrong and the adjudicators have to deal with these problems. Our heroine, Zedi Loew, is ... Read more