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…
Lyudmila Petrushevskaya: Нас украли. История преступлений (Kidnapped)
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…
Ellis Sharp: Pig Tale
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…
Beka Adamashvili: ამ რომანში ყველა კვდება (Everybody Dies in this Novel)
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…
Pat Gray: Mr. Narrator
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…
Ellis Sharp: Month of the Drowned Dog
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…
Mia Couto: Mulheres de Cinzas (Woman of the Ashes)
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…
Sergei Lebedev: Титан (A Present Past: Titan and Other Chronicles)
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…
Yao-Chang Chen: 傀儡花 (Puppet Flower)
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…
Cheon Myeong-Kwan: 고래 (The Whale)
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…