Caroline Lamarche: La Chienne de Naha [The Bitch of Naha]
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)…
Amélie Nothomb: Le livre des soeurs [The Book of the Sisters]
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…
Amélie Nothomb: Premier sang [First Blood]
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…
Lize Spit: Melting
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! -…
Henri Calet: La Fièvre des Polders [Polder Fever]
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,…
Amélie Nothomb: Les aérostats [Airships]
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…
Amélie Nothomb: Soif [Thirst]
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…
Amélie Nothomb: Les prénoms épicènes [The Epicene First Names]
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…
Amélie Nothomb: Frappe-toi le coeur [Strike Your Heart]
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…
Lize Spit: Het smelt [The Melting]
The latest addition to my website is Lize Spit's Het smelt [The Melting]. This is a début novel by a young Belgian writer and a superb novel it is. Surprisingly…