Mirza Waheed: The Collaborator
The latest addition to my website is Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator. This is the first novel on my site from Kashmir. This novel is set in the India-Kashmir conflict and…
The latest addition to my website is Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator. This is the first novel on my site from Kashmir. This novel is set in the India-Kashmir conflict and…
The latest addition to my website is Jenny Erpenbeck's Aller Tage Abend (The End of Days). This is a non-whimsical variation on a technique we have seen in Kate Atkinson's…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's A Kindness Cup. Astley deals directly with violence in this novel. The story tells of a group of white vigilantes in…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's The Acolyte. This novel is now out of print in the UK and US, which is a shame, as it is…
The latest addition to my website is Marie Redonnet's La femme au Colt 45 [The Woman with the Colt 45]. Redonnet seemed to have stopped publishing but she has now…
The latest addition to my website is Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Dos crímenes (Two Crimes). This is another mocking satire of Mexican mores by Ibargüengoitia, this time somewhat subverting the conventional detective…
The latest addition to my website is Rafael Chirbes' Paris-Austerlitz. Chirbes had started this book in 1996, put it aside and then returned to it later, only finishing it last…
The latest addition to my website is Jorge Ibargüengoitia's Los relámpagos de agosto (The Lightning of August), a very funny novel whcih ruthlessly satirises the memoirs of Mexican Civil War…
The latest addition to my website is Mario Vargas Llosa's Cinco Esquinas [Five Corners]. Sadly this book confirms what we have known for a while, namely that Vargas Llosa's talents…
The latest addition to my website is Risa Wataya's 勝手にふるえてろ [Tremble All You Want]. This is the first-person story of the twenty-six year old Yoshika Etô, virgin, loner, and deeply…