Maki Kashimada: 六〇〇〇度の愛 (Love at Six Thousand Degrees)
The latest addition to my website is Maki Kashimada's 六〇〇〇度の愛 (Love at Six Thousand Degrees). This is something of a Japanese response to the film Hiroshima mon amour, scripted by…
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…
Igor Kaczurowsky: Шлях невідомого (Because Deserters Are Immortal)
The latest addition to my website is Igor Kaczurowsky's Шлях невідомого (Because Deserters Are Immortal). The book is set in Ukraine in late 1941 when the Germans are invading the…
Yuriy Vynnychuk: Танґо смерті (Tango of Death)
The latest addition to my website is Yuriy Vynnychuk's Танґо смерті (Tango of Death). This is a very complex novel, set mainly in Lviv. It is told in alternating chapters.…
Vasily Grossman: Народ бессмертен (The People Immortal; No Beautiful Nights)
The latest addition to my website is Vasily Grossman's Народ бессмертен (The People Immortal; No Beautiful Nights) . The book had been translated into English in 1945 but this version…
Georges Magnane: Où l’herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows)
The latest addition to my website is Georges Magnane's Où l'herbe ne pousse plus (Where the Grass No Longer Grows). The novel is a fictionalised account of a historical event…
Roy Jacobsen: Grenser (Borders)
Yes, this novel is about borders, particularly national ones but also borders between people. Apart from a very large section involving the Battle of Stalingrad, much of this novel is…
Per Petterson: Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses)
The latest addition to my website is Per Petterson's Ut og stjæle hester (Out Stealing Horses). Trond Sander is sixty-seven. Within the space of a month , his second wife…
Sigurd Hoel: Møte ved Milepelen (Meeting at the Milestone)
The latest addition to my website is Sigurd Hoel's Møte ved Milepelen (Meeting at the Milestone). Published only two years after World War II, this book had considerable impact in…
Jana Bodnárová: Náhrdelník/Obojok (Necklace/Choker)
The latest addition to my website is Jana Bodnárová's Náhrdelník/Obojok (Necklace/Choker). This novel tells the stories of two Slovak women - Sara and Iboja - who meet in their hometown…