Cormac McCarthy: The Passenger
The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Published when he was eighty-nine, it is clear that McCarthy can still write a first-class novel. Our hero is…
The latest addition to my website is Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Published when he was eighty-nine, it is clear that McCarthy can still write a first-class novel. Our hero is…
The latest addition to my website is Jon Fosse's Det er Ales (Aliss at the Fire). Signe and Asle are a married couple with no children who live in the…
The latest addition to my website is Vigdis Hjorth's Er mor død?(Is Mother Dead?). Johanna, now sixty, is a Norwegian artist, living in Utah. Her husband, Mark, has died and…
The latest addition to my website is Zhang Yueran's 九栋 (Cocoon). The book is narrated by Li Jiaqi and Cheng Gong. They had not met for eighteen years, when they…
The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Rombo (Rombo. This is another wonderful book from Esther Kinsky, this one giving an account of the 1976 Friuli earthquake and,…
The latest addition to my website is Hiroko Oyamada's いたちなく (Weasels in the Attic). This book consists of three linked stories. In the first the unnamed narrator and his friend…
The latest addition to my website is Vasily Grossman's Народ бессмертен (The People Immortal; No Beautiful Nights) . The book had been translated into English in 1945 but this version…
The latest addition to my website is Orhan Pamuk's Veba Geceleri (Nights of Plague). This tells the long and complex story of the fictitious Mediterranean island of Mingheria. The story…
The latest addition to my website is Jorge Enrique Lage's La Autopista: The Movie Freeway- La Movie. Set in mid-twenty-first century Havana, this surrealist/absurdist novel recounts the adventures of the…
The latest addition to my website is Perhat Tursun's Chong shähär (The Backstreets). Perhat Turson is probably the foremost Uighur author but sadly has been imprisoned by the Chinese for…