Women – The Modern Novel

Hiromi Ito » とげ抜き新巣鴨地蔵縁起 (The Thorn Puller)

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Post published:9 December 2022
Post category:Japan The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Nino Haratischwili: Mein sanfter Zwilling (My Soul Twin)

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Post published:27 November 2022
Post category:Georgia Germany The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Marvel Moreno: En diciembre llegaban las brisas (December Breeze)

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Post published:14 November 2022
Post category:Colombia Feminism The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Sevgi Soysal: Şafak (Dawn)

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Post published:12 November 2022
Post category:The Modern Novel website Turkey Women
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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…

Vigdis Hjorth: Er mor død?(Is Mother Dead?)

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Post published:21 October 2022
Post category:Motherhood Norway The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Zhang Yueran: 九栋 (Cocoon)

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Post published:8 October 2022
Post category:China The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

Esther Kinsky: Rombo (Rombo

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Post published:4 October 2022
Post category:Earthquake Germany The Modern Novel website Women
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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,…

Hiroko Oyamada: いたちなく (Weasels in the Attic)

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Post published:1 October 2022
Post category:Fish Japan The Modern Novel website Women
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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…

A. M. Homes: The Unfolding

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Post published:2 September 2022
Post category:Politics The Modern Novel website USA Women
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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…

Amélie Nothomb: Le livre des soeurs [The Book of the Sisters]

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Post published:25 August 2022
Post category:Belgium Sisters The Modern Novel website Women
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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…