Michal Ajvaz:Cesta na jih (Journey to the South)
The latest addition to my website is Michal Ajvaz's Cesta na jih (Journey to the South). This is an amazing work, starting with a ballet of Kant's Critique of Pure…
The latest addition to my website is Michal Ajvaz's Cesta na jih (Journey to the South). This is an amazing work, starting with a ballet of Kant's Critique of Pure…
The latest addition to my website is Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's Нас украли. История преступлений (Kidnapped). Petrushevskaya is best-known for her weird/dark tales and though this is a novel it takes the…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Pig Tale. This is a very witty book, damning human foibles, told from the point of view of a five year…
The latest addition to my website is Beka Adamashvili's ამ რომანში ყველა კვდება (Everybody Dies in this Novel) . This is a wonderful postmodern romp by a young Georgian writer…
The latest addition to my website is Pat Gray's Narrator. The narrator is called, yes, Mr (Basil) Narrator. He is in (a fictitious) Morocco working for a British engineering firm…
The latest addition to my website is Ellis Sharp's Month of the Drowned Dog. This is a decidedly postmodern novel, as we might expect from Sharp. Sharp, the author, tells…
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's Mulheres de Cinzas (Woman of the Ashes). This is the first book in a trilogy about Portugal's colonisation of the part…
The latest addition to my website is Sergei Lebedev's Титан (A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles). This is not a novel but, as Lebedev says in his introduction, the…
The latest addition to my website is Yao-Chang Chen's 傀儡花 (Puppet Flower). The novel is primarily set in Taiwan in 1867 when Taiwan is partially controlled by the the Qing…
The latest addition to my website is Cheon Myeong-Kwan's 고래 (Whale). This is an incredibly complicated and, at times, improbable story about various characters during the second part of the…