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Maica Rafecas: El setembre i la nit (September and the Night)

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Post published:22 September 2023
Post category:Catalonia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Maica Rafecas' El setembre i la nit (September and the Night). The novel tells the story of Anaïs whose family own a vineyard.…

Luis Felipe Fabre: Declaración de las canciones oscuras (Recital of the Dark Verses)

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Post published:19 September 2023
Post category:Christianity Mexico Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Luis Felipe Fabre's Declaración de las canciones oscuras (Recital of the Dark Verses). Saint John of the Cross/San Juan de la Cruz was…

Guzel Yakhina :Дети мои (A Volga Tale)

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Post published:18 September 2023
Post category:Russia Stalin The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Guzel Yakhina's Дети мои (A Volga Tale). The focus is on the Volga Germans, German nationals who, at the invitation of Catherine the…

Ismail Kadare: Kur sunduesit grinden (A Dictator Calls)

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Post published:17 September 2023
Post category:Albania Russia Stalin The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Ismail Kadare's Kur sunduesit grinden (A Dictator Calls). Kadare had spent some time studying in Moscow where he heard the story about the…

Ventura Ametller: Summa kaòtica (Summa Kaotica)

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Post published:10 September 2023
Post category:Catalonia Civil War The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Ventura Ametller's Summa kaòtica (Summa Kaotica). This is one of the great Catalan novels, which has finally made it into English. It is…

Andrew Crumey: Beethoven’s Assassins

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Post published:9 September 2023
Post category:Beethoven Music Scotland The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Andrew Crumey's Beethoven’s Assassins. This is a brilliant novel which is nominally about Beethoven (the composer) but is also about lots of other…

Antonio Soler: El nombre que ahora digo (Soldiers in the Fog)

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Post published:8 September 2023
Post category:Civil War Spain The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Antonio Soler's El nombre que ahora digo (Soldiers in the Fog). The novel is set in the Spanish Civil War and follows the…

Grazia Deledda: Marianna Sirca (Marianna Sirca)

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Post published:6 September 2023
Post category:Italy Sardinia The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Grazia Deledda's Marianna Sirca. The book is set in Deledda's native Sardinia. The eponymous heroine has worked all her life, obeying orders from…

Patrick Langley:The Variations

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Post published:4 September 2023
Post category:England Music The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Patrick Langley's The Variations. The book tells the story of people affected with the gift and the Agnes’s Hospice for Acoustically Gifted Children, which…

Anne Enright: The Wren

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Post published:29 August 2023
Post category:Ireland The Modern Novel website
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The latest addition to my website is Anne Enright's The Wren. This novel tells off three generations, an irresponsible but apparently great Irish poet, his wife, their daughters and granddaughter.…