Mia Couto: Mulheres de Cinzas (Woman of the Ashes)
The latest addition to my website is Mia Couto's Mulheres de Cinzas (Woman of the Ashes). This is the first book in a trilogy about Portugal's colonisation of the part…
Miquel de Palol: El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights)
The latest addition to my website is Miquel de Palol's El jardí dels set crepuscles (The Garden of Seven Twilights). This is the first novel by the major Catalan writer…
Vasyl Shevchuk: Побратими, або Пригоди двох запорожців на суходолі, в морі та під водою (Blood Brothers)
The latest addition to my website is Vasyl Shevchuk's Побратими, або Пригоди двох запорожців на суходолі, в морі та під водою (Blood Brothers). This novel is set in the seventeenth…
Oleg Shynkarenko: Кагарлик (Kaharlyk)
The latest addition to my website is Oleg Shynkarenko's Кагарлик (Kaharlyk). the book was originally on Facebook before being published as a book. It tells of the aftermath of the…
Bakhtiyar Ali: Duwahamîn Henarî Dunya (The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World)
The latest addition to my website is Bakhtiyar Ali's Henarî Dunya (The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World). This is another superb novel from Bakhtiyar Ali telling the story of…
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.…
Daša Drndić: Canzone di guerra
The latest addition to my website is Daša Drndić's Canzone di guerra. Our narrator is Tea Radan, a Croatian single mother who has emigrated to Çanada. In a series of…
Jens Bjørneboe: Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom)
Latest on my website: Jens Bjørneboe's Frihetens øyeblikk (Moment of Freedom) This is a thoroughly grim account by a forty-six year old Norwegian, living in a remote Alpine part of…
Muhsin al-Ramli: حدائق الرئيةة (The President’s Gardens)
The latest addition to my website is Muhsin al-Ramli's حدائق الرئيةة (The President’s Gardens). The novel tells the stories of three close Iraqi male friends. At the beginning of the…
Najwa Bin Shatwan: الطليانوج حياة خاصة (Catalogue of a Private Life)
The latest addition to my website is Najwa Bin Shatwan's (Catalogue of a Private Life). This is a collection of eight stories from Libya. Some are serious, but most are…