Amélie Nothomb: Psychopompe [Psychopomp]
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Psychopompe [ Psychopomp]. Yes, psychopomp is a word ( literally the guide of souls. They are creatures, spirits, angels, demons or…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Psychopompe [ Psychopomp]. Yes, psychopomp is a word ( literally the guide of souls. They are creatures, spirits, angels, demons or…
The latest addition to my website is Caroline Lamarche's La Chienne de Naha [The Bitch of Naha] . The book opens with a tale from the Triqui people (in Mexico)…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb: Le livre des soeurs [The Book of the Sisters]. The book tells of Tristane, born to parents who are more interested…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Premier sang [First Blood]. The book starts with a man facing a firing squad and moves to his childhood in an…
I read and reviewed Lize Spit/'s The Melting four years ago (in German). It has since been translated into various languages but will be appearing in English - finally! -…
The latest addition to my website is Henri Calet's La Fièvre des Polders [Polder Fever]. Calet's third novel is set in Burrh, a small Belgian town near the Dutch border,…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Les aérostats [Airships]. Ange, a nineteen-year old university student in Brussels gets a job teaching a sixteen-year old boy who is…
The latest edition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Soif [Thirst]. Nothomb had long been planning to write her Jesus novel but had not felt able to do so till…
Latest on my website: Amélie Nothomb's Les prénoms épicènes [The Epicene First Names]. This is a Nothomb parable, telling the tale of a couple with epicene first names, (names which…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Frappe-toi le coeur [Strike Your Heart], her latest annual novel. This is something of a change from her normal style, as…