Salman Rushdie: Quichotte
The latest addition to my website is Salman Rushdie:'s Quichotte. This is nominally Rushdie's pastiche of Don Quixote, with its inspiration more from US TV shows and Pinocchio than from…
César Aira: El testamento del mago tenor [The Will of the Tenor Magician]
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El testamento del mago tenor [The Will of the Tenor Magician]. This book, not translated into English, tells the story of…
César Aira: El volante [The Flyer]
The latest addition to my website is César Aira's El volante [The Flyer]. This is another novel from Aira which starts in a fairly straightforward manner and then veers off,…
Khushwant Singh: I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale
The latest addition to my website is Khushwant Singh's I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale. This novel is set in 1942-1943 in Amritsar. Buta Singh is the paterfamilias of a…
Amit Chaudhuri: Odysseus Abroad
The latest addition to my website is Amit Chaudhuri's Odysseus Abroad. It is a day (19 July 1985) in the life of Ananda Sen, an Indian studying English literature at…
J. G. Farrell: The Siege of Krishnapur
The latest addition to my website is J. G. Farrell's The Siege of Krishnapur, the second novel in Farrell's post-colonial Empire trilogy. This one is based on the Siege of…
Triveni: ಶರಪಂಜರ (Sharapanjara; Cage of Arrows; The Mad Woman)
The latest addition to my website is Triveni's ಶರಪಂಜರ (Sharapanjara; Cage of Arrows; The Mad Woman). Triveni was a feminist Indian writer, writing in Kannada. This was one of only…
Upamanyu Chatterjee: The Mammaries of the Welfare State
The latest addition to my website is Upamanyu Chatterjee's The Mammaries of the Welfare State. This is a follow-up to Chatterjee's English, August and continues the story of Agastya Sen,…
Jhumpa Lahiri: Two Novels
The latest additions to my website are the two novels by Jhumpa Lahiri. The first is The Namesake, a novel which has deservedly received much acclaim and has been made…
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi: اند تھے سر آسما (The Mirror of Beauty)
The latest addition to my website is Shamsur Rahman Faruqi's اند تھے سر آسما (The Mirror of Beauty). This has been hailed as one of the great Urdu novels. It…