Mikhail Shishkin: Письмовник (The Light and the Dark)
The latest addition to my website is Mikhail Shishkin's Письмовник (The Light and the Dark). It tells the story of two lovers, Volodya and Sasha, apparently writing letters to one…
The latest addition to my website is Mikhail Shishkin's Письмовник (The Light and the Dark). It tells the story of two lovers, Volodya and Sasha, apparently writing letters to one…
The latest addition to my website is Mikhail Shishkin's Венерин Волос (Maidenhair). This is a very complex novel that romps through Russian history, primarily of the past hundred years but…
Last year, starting in March, I read nothing but Icelandic novels for a month or so. I found the experience very interesting, getting different perspectives of the same country in…
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Crossbones, the third book in his trilogy about Somalia at the beginning of this century and the the efforts of expatriate…
Sadly, two writers whom I have not read but should have done, died yesterday. Assia Djebar was an Algerian writer and wrote novels with a feminist viewpoint. She was also…
The latest addition to my website is Enrique Vila-Matas' París no se acaba nunca (Never Any End to Paris). This is a fun post-modern novel, nominally about the two years…
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Knots, the second in a trilogy of novels about expatriate Somalis visiting Somalia during the early part of this century, when…
The latest addition to my website is Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. As this was voted best novel of the century (so far), I really had…
The latest addition to my website is Nuruddin Farah's Links, the first book in a trilogy about the disastrous situation in Somalia, at the beginning of the 21st century. The…
The latest addition to my website is George Packer's The Unwinding: Thirty Years of American Decline. Though not a novel Die Zeit described it as the first Great American novel…