Hiromi Ito » とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller)
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Ito's とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller). She calls it a long poem but we might describe it as an autobiographical novel. On…
The latest addition to my website is Hiromi Ito's とげ抜き 新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller). She calls it a long poem but we might describe it as an autobiographical novel. On…
The latest addition to my website is Nino Haratischwili's Mein sanfter Zwilling (My Soul Twin). Stella's parents divorced when she she was six and she and her sister went to…
The latest addition to my website is Marvel Moreno's En diciembre llegaban las brisas (December Breeze). Marvel Moreno tells a series of interlinked stories, many of which show the cruelty…
The latest addition to my website is Sevgi Soysal's Şafak (Dawn). The story, partially based on the author's own life is set in Adana, where Oya is in internal exile…
The latest addition to my website is Vigdis Hjorth's Er mor død?(Is Mother Dead?). Johanna, now sixty, is a Norwegian artist, living in Utah. Her husband, Mark, has died and…
The latest addition to my website is Zhang Yueran's 九栋 (Cocoon). The book is narrated by Li Jiaqi and Cheng Gong. They had not met for eighteen years, when they…
The latest addition to my website is Esther Kinsky's Rombo (Rombo. This is another wonderful book from Esther Kinsky, this one giving an account of the 1976 Friuli earthquake and,…
The latest addition to my website is Hiroko Oyamada's いたちなく (Weasels in the Attic). This book consists of three linked stories. In the first the unnamed narrator and his friend…
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…
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…