Quim Monzó: Benzina (Gasoline)
The latest addition to my website is Quim Monzó's Benzina (Gasoline). This is a very funny, very post-modern novel about two Catalan painters in New York. The first is Heribert…
The latest addition to my website is Quim Monzó's Benzina (Gasoline). This is a very funny, very post-modern novel about two Catalan painters in New York. The first is Heribert…
The latest addition to my website is Abubakar Adam Ibrahim's Season of Crimson Blossoms. This is a novel set in contemporary Nigeria, against a background of violence, corruption, drug-dealing and…
The latest addition to my website is Thea Astley's Coda. This novel is an affectionate tale about an Australian woman, Kathleen, who is getting older and dementia and incontinence are…
The latest addition to my website is Rodrigo Hasbún's Los afectos (Affections), a first-class novel, based on the story of a real German family that emigrated to Bolivia. The family…
The latest addition to my website is Max Aub's Campo abierto [Open Field], the second book in Max Aub's Magic Labyrinth series about the Spanish Civil War, though the third…
The Women's Prize for Fiction has just posted Latitude Festival's Top 20 Books by Women. What a disappointing selection! Only one originally written in a language other than English (Allende),…
The latest addition to my website is Hendrik Groen's Pogingen om iets van het leven te maken. Het geheime dagboek van Hendrik Groen, 83 1/4 jaar (Attempts to Make Something…
The latest addition to my website is Rosario Ferré's La casa de la laguna (The House on the Lagoon). Ferré, whose father was a governor of Puerto Rico, writes about…
The latest addition to my website is Gérard Bessette's L’incubation (Incubation). The novel is entirely narrated in stream-of-consciousness style by a man known as Lagarde, a librarian by profession. He…
The latest addition to my website is Claire-Louise Bennett's Pond. This book is subtitled Stories but it is really a novel, as it tells the tale of the unnamed narrator…