The latest addition to my website is Elias Venezis‘ Γαλήνη (Serenity). After World War I and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek army sought to protect the many Greeks who lived in Western Anatolia and whose ancestors had lived there for many hundreds of years. However the Turks under Kemal Ataturk defeated them … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Haji Jabir‘s ة سوداء، (Black Foam). Dawoud, one of four names he uses in this book, is an Eritrean. We follow his life as he flees Eritrea, where he has been imprisoned for abandoning his army training to be with his girlfriend, as he escapes to Ethiopia, cheats … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Rémy Ngamije‘s The Eternal Audience of One. Rémy Ngamije, like his hero Séraphin, was born in Rwanda. His family fled Rwanda during the Rwandan Civil War and ended up in Namibia via Kenya. Séraphin is, like a lot of young men, unsure of where he is going, feels … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Valeria Luiselli‘s
The latest addition to my website is John Lanchester‘s The Wall. This is a post-apocalyptic novel about a country which has a wall entirely round its coastline (some 10,000 km) to keep out refugees. The country is presumably based on Britain. There has been an event called The Change, which has involved major flooding all … Read more