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…
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…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Riquet à la houppe [Riquet with the Tuft]. This is a modern updating of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Riquet with the…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Le crime du comte Neville [The Crime of Count Neville]. This is her twenty-fourth book in twenty-four years. She regularly produces…
The latest addition to my website is Pierre Mertens' Une paix royale [A Royal Peace]. This is a superb book about a Belgian called Pierre Raymond who is now a…
The most recent addition to my website is Pierre Mertens' Les éblouissements (Shadowlight), Mertens' best-known novel. It tells the story of German poet Gottfried Benn, starting with a section on…
The latest addition to my website is Patrick Roegiers' Le Bonheur des Belges [The Happiness of the Belgians]. It is both a response to Hugo Claus' Het verdriet van België…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Biographie de la faim (The Life of Hunger). This one is similar to many of her other novels - the story…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Ni d'Ève Ni d'Adam (Tokyo Fiancée), another quirky novel from the Belgian author. This one, like many of her other books,…