Najwa Barakat: مستر نون (Mister N)
The latest addition to my website is Najwa Barakat's مستر نون (Mister N). Mister N is a failed Lebanese writer who currently lives in a hotel, rarely leaving it. We…
Almudena Grandes: El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart)
The latest addition to my website is Almudena Grandes' El corazón helado (The Frozen Heart). This is a long and complicated novel set mainly in the present but very much…
Vladimir Sharov: Будьте как дети (Be As Children)
The latest addition to my website is Vladimir Sharov's Будьте как дети (Be As Children) . This is the third of Sharov's novels to be translated into English and, in…
Maryse Condé: En attendant la montée des eaux (Waiting for the Waters to Rise)
The latest addition to my website is Maryse Condé's En attendant la montée des eaux (Waiting for the Waters to Rise). We follow the story of Babakar, a doctor, son…
Rosa Maria Arquimbau: Quaranta anys perduts (Forty Lost Years)
The latest addition to my website is Rosa Maria Arquimbau's Quaranta anys perduts (Forty Lost Years). The novel tells the story of Laura Vidal, a Barcelona woman, from Francesc Macià…
Faysal Khartash: دوار الموت ما بين حلب والرقة (Roundabout of Death)
The latest addition to my website is Faysal Khartash's دوار الموت ما بين حلب والرقة (Roundabout of Death). The novel is set in the worst part of the Battle of…
Javier Cercas: El monarca de las sombras (Lord of All Dead)
The latest addition to my website is Javier Cercas' El monarca de las sombras (Lord of All Dead). This is another non-fiction novel from Cercas, as he sets out to…
Claudia Hernández: Roza, tumba, quema (Slash and Burn)
The latest addition to my website is Claudia Hernández's Roza, tumba, quema (Slash and Burn). This novel is set in El Salvador before, during and after the Salvadoran Civil War.…
Eugene Vodolazkin: Соловьёв и Ларионов (Solovyov and Larionov)
The latest addition to my website is Eugene Vodolazkin's Соловьёв и Ларионов (Solovyov and Larionov). This is Vodolazkin's first novel (though not the first to appear in English) and a…
Rodrigo Rey Rosa: El material humano (Human Matter)
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo Rey Rosa's El material humano (Human Matter), Though called a novel, it has been described as more of notes for a novel…