tmn The latest addition to my website is Vigdis Hjörth‘s Om bare (If Only). Ida Heier is married with two children and a successful playwright. One day at a conference she meets Arnold Bush (short, balding). He is a professor of German. They end up in bed. The rest of the book describes her obsession with … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Olena Stiazhkina‘s Смерть Лева Сесіла (Cecil the Lion Had to Die). In 1986 a group of Ukrainians of German origin in Donetsk decide to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ernst Thälmann by naming a new-born child after him. Two babies are selected, to be called … Read more
The latest addition to my website isLászló Krasznahorkai‘s Herscht 07769 (Herscht 07769). The novel is set in a small town in Eastern Germany, post-Communism . Our hero is a gentle giant, Florian Herscht, somewhat simple, but well-liked by everyone as he is always willing to help. He works for a cleaner. His boss is a … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Tomás González‘s Niebla al mediodía (Fog at Noon). Raul,a tall reclusive man who makes furniture out of bamboo, marries Julia. He is her fifth husband. She is, in her own view – a view not shared by everyone – a highly accomplished poet. They have mad passionate sex, … Read more
The latest addition to my website isAmélie Nothomb‘s L’impossible retour [The Impossible Return]. In this book, Amélie Nothomb returns to Japan, where she had lived earlier in her life, with a female photographer friend, who had won a photography competition with free travel for two as the prize. The friend, Pep, turns out to be … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Marcel Melthérorong‘s Tôghàn. This the first Vanuatan novel ever published and the first on this website. It is very much an autobiographical novel. Tôghàn was born on New Caledonia to Vanuatan parents. We first meet him when he has been arrested (for burglary), not his first trouble with … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill‘s Los pichiciegos (Malvinas Requiem)The novel focuses on a group of Argentinian deserters during the Falklands War in 1982. They have managed to hide away underground but are worried about both their own side and the British. They are ruled with a rod of iron by … Read more
The latest addition to my website isHenrik Pontoppidan‘s Lykke-Per (Lucky Per). This is a long and complex story of a Danish man called Per Sidenius. He is born and grows up in a large very religious family but soon breaks with them. He does not, like his brothers, want to be a parson but a … Read more
The latest addition to my website isLydie Salvayre‘s La Vie commune (Everyday Life). This novel tells the story of Suzanne Barette,a widow of thirty-two years who works as a secretary in the office of M. Meyer, a successful marketing manager. A new secretary has been appointed and Suzanne really does not like her – cheap … Read more
The latest addition to my website isYōko Ogawa‘s 沈黙博物館 [Museum of Silence]. A Japanese museumologist is invited by a cantankerous elderly lady to set up a museum in the remote village where she and her adoptive daughter live. Only after a while does he learn what the museum is – a collection of items taken … Read more