Marlen Haushofer: Die Mansarde (The Loft)
The latest addition to my website is Marlen Haushofer's Die Mansarde (The Loft). This is Haushofer's last published novel and a first-class one it is. The unnamed narrator lives in…
The latest addition to my website is Marlen Haushofer's Die Mansarde (The Loft). This is Haushofer's last published novel and a first-class one it is. The unnamed narrator lives in…
The latest addition to my website is Zadie Smith's Swing Time, another superb novel from this author. The unnamed narrator is the daughter of a white man and black woman.…
The latest addition to my website is Eimear McBride's The Lesser Bohemians. Many critics raved about her first novel, A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, which won the Baileys Women’s…
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb's Riquet à la houppe [Riquet with the Tuft]. This is a modern updating of Charles Perrault's fairy tale Riquet with the…
The latest addition to my website is Zofia Nałkowska's Granica (Boundary). This is a superb Polish feminist novel, first published in 1935, which surprisingly has only just been translated into…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's Drylands, her last novel written when she was seventy-four. It is a bitter novel, whose main theme is how standards have…
The latest addition to my website is A L Kennedy's Serious Sweet. This is another first-class novel from Kennedy, telling the story over the course of one day of two…
The latest addition to my website is Susan Daitch's The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir. Daitch wrote two excellent post-modern novels in 1986 and 1990. Since then, she has written only…
The latest addition to my website is Paola Capriolo's Una di loro [One of Them]. This is another excellent novel from Capriolo, sadly not translated into English. The unnamed narrator…
The latest addition to my website is Han Kang's 소년이 온다 (Human Acts). This novel concerns the Gwangju Uprising of May 1980 against the military dictatorship of Chun Doo-hwan. Han…