Brunei, Cambodia and the Maldives
My current reading is novels from countries that have yet to appear on my website. Of the three I have read this past weekend, the Cambodian, Vaddey Ratner's In the…
Liam O’Flaherty: Famine
The latest addition to my website is Liam O'Flaherty's Famine, a harrowing account of the Great Irish Famine of the mid-1840s, which resulted in at least one million deaths and…
Andrés Neuman: El viajero del siglo (Traveller of the Century)
I am continuing my reading of Spanish-language novels. The latest addition to my website is Andrés Neuman's El viajero del siglo (Traveller of the Century) though, unlike the previous two,…
Benesdra and Chirbes
The two latest books to appear on my website are Salvador Benesdra's El traductor [The Translator] and Rafael Chirbes' La larga marcha [The Long March]. Sadly, neither is available in…
Reading the World
When I first started my site, many years ago, it was not my intention to cover the world. My aim was to review (and therefore encourage others to read the…
Filmed novels
I recently read and posted on my site László Krasznahorkai's Sátántangó (Satantango). I had heard that famed Hungarian film-maker Béla Tarr had made a film of the book, which was…
Novelists in Spanish
When I first started doing this site, many years ago, one of the many gaps in my education that I found was a knowledge of Spanish and Latin-American literature. Even…
Hacked
Last week this blog was hacked, not once but twice. While writing my previous post, I noticed that everything was very, very slow, yet everything else on my computer was…
Ismail Kadare
I have recently read Ismail Kadare's Spiritus. It is the twenty-second of his novels that I have read and, I suspect, the most novels I have read by the same…
The Sufferings of the Kurds
I have just posted to my website the first Kurdish novel I have read. Its title, which translates as Sufferings of the People explains the title of this post. Sadly,…