Zinaida Tulub: В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile)
The latest addition to my website is Zinaida Tulub's В степу безкраїм за Уралом (The Exile). This is novelised biography of the first exile of Ukraine's national poet Taras Shevchenko.…
Wolfgang Hilbig: Das Provisorium (The Interim)
The latest addition to my website is Wolfgang Hilbig's Das Provisorium (The Interim). This novel tells the story of C. He had been a good East German, working in a…
Nabile Farès: La Découverte du nouveau monde (Discovery of the New World)
The latest addition to my website is Nabile Farès'La Découverte du nouveau monde (Discovery of the New World). This is a trilogy of books first published French in the 1970s.…
Maria Maïlat: La cuisse de Kafka [Kafka’s Thigh]
The latest addition to my website is Maria Maïlat's La cuisse de Kafka [Kafka’s Thigh]. This is a semi-autobiographical novel. Her heroine is called Mina Baïlar. She is born in…
Minae Mizumura: 私小説 from left to right (An I-Novel)
The latest addition to my website is Minae Mizumura's 私小説 from left to right (An I-Novel). This book was written and published before her other two novels published in English…
Fowzia Karimi – Above Us the Milky Way
The latest addition to my website is Fowzia Karim's Above Us the Milky Way. Fowzia Karimi and her family - parents and five daughters - left Afghanistan in 1980 after…
Hamid Ismailov: Hayy-ibn-Yakzan (Of Strangers and-Bees)
The latest addition to my website is Hamid Ismailov's Hayy-ibn-Yakzan (Of Strangers and-Bees). This is another superb book from Hamid Ismailov, the Uzbek novelist, about exile and, indeed about bees.…
Mario Benedetti: Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a Broken Mirror)
The latest addition to my website is Mario Benedetti's Primavera con una esquina rota (Springtime in a Broken Mirror). This is only the second of Benedetti's novels to appear in…
Burhan Sönmez: Masumlar (Sins & Innocents)
The latest addition to my website is Burhan Sönmez's Masumlar (Sins & Innocents. Burhan Sönmez was attacked by the police in Turkey and came to England, specifically Cambridge, both to…