Taras Prokhasko: НепрОсті (The Unsimple)
The latest addition to my website is Taras Prokhasko's НепрОсті (The Unsimple). This is a post-modern, magic realism novel set in the Carpathians. It is set primarily in the fairly…
The latest addition to my website is Taras Prokhasko's НепрОсті (The Unsimple). This is a post-modern, magic realism novel set in the Carpathians. It is set primarily in the fairly…
The latest addition to my website is David Diop's Frère d’âme (At Night All Blood Is Black). This book won the International Booker Prize in 2021. It tells the story…
The latest addition to my website is Abdulrazak Gurnah's Afterlives. The novel tells the story of the country that will become Tanzania from the beginning of the 20th century (when…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Die Kapuzinergruft (The Emperor’s Tomb). This was the last novel he published in his lifetime, when he was living in exile,…
The latest addition to my website is Miljenko Jergović's Rod (Kin). This is an 800-page family novel, as the author calls it, but do not let that put you off.…
The latest addition to my website is Liviu Rebreanu's Pădurea spânzuraților (Forest of the Hanged). Our hero is Apostol Bologa. He is ethnically Romanian - his father had been imprisoned…
The latest addition to my website is Zaharia Stancu's Desculț (Barefoot). We follow Darie, a young peasant boy from the beginning of the 20th century to World War I. However,…
The latest addition to my website is Gabriela Adameșteanu's Dimineață pierdută (Wasted Morning). The novel gives a panorama of Romania and its sufferings from the beginning of World War I…
The latest addition to my website is Camil Petrescu's Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război [The Last Night of Love, the First Night of War]. This is a…
The latest addition to my website is Joseph Roth's Hiob (Job, the Story of a Simple Man). This is a modern (late 19th/early20th century) updating of the story of the…