Perhat Tursun: Chong shähär (The Backstreets)
The latest addition to my website is Perhat Tursun's Chong shähär (The Backstreets). Perhat Turson is probably the foremost Uighur author but sadly has been imprisoned by the Chinese for…
Ian McEwan: Lessons
The latest addition to my website is Ian McEwan's Lessons. This is McEwan's longest novel and tells the story of Roland Baines, his friends and family from World War II…
Enrique Vila-Matas: Montevideo
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas'Montevideo. Our unnamed narrator has written one novel while living in Melilla, turned to drug dealing in Paris and goes back to…
A. M. Homes: The Unfolding
The latest addition to my website is A. M. Homes' The Unfolding. Homes tells two linked stories relating to the Hitchens family. The family is the Big Guy (we never…
László Krasznahorkai: Aprómunka egy palotaért (Spadework for a Palace)
The latest addition to my website is László Krasznahorkai's Aprómunka egy palotaért (Spadework for a Palace) This is a short novel about a New York librarian called herman melvill (sic).…
Amélie Nothomb: Le livre des soeurs [The Book of the Sisters]
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb: Le livre des soeurs [The Book of the Sisters]. The book tells of Tristane, born to parents who are more interested…
Ibrahim Al-Koni: ـلـيـل فـي حـق الـنـهـار، روايـ (The Night Will Have Its Say)
The latest addition to my website is Ibrahim Al-Koni's ـلـيـل فـي حـق الـنـهـار، روايـ (The Night Will Have Its Say). The book is set in the late seventh/early eighth centuries…
Sonallah Ibrahim: العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat)
The latest addition to my website is Sonallah Ibrahim's العمامة والقبعة (The Turban and the Hat). The novel takes place during the French occupation of Egypt from 1798 to 1801.…
Sylvie Germain: Jours de colère (Days of Anger)
The latest addition to my website is Sylvie Germain's Jours de colère (Days of Anger). This book, a reissue by publishers Dedalus, is a classic modern French novel, mixing Gothic…
Georges Magnane: Où l’herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows)
The latest addition to my website is Georges Magnane's Où l'herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows). The novel is a fictionalised account of a historical event…