Bora Ćosić: Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji (My Family’s Role in the World Revolution and Other Prose)

The latest addition to my website is Bora Ćosić‘s Uloga moje porodice u svetskoj revoluciji (My Family’s Role in the World Revolution and Other Prose). The main story tells of Ćosić’s family living in Belgrade in World War II. The mother is paranoid and disorganised, the father a drunk who cannot hold a job, the … Read more

Tayeb Salih: موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال (Season of Migration to the North)

The latest addition to my website is Tayib Salih>’s وسم الهجرة إلى الشمال (Season of Migration to the North) . The narrator, a Sudanese man who has been studying in London has returned home to his native village in Sudan where he meets Mustafa, who moved to the village five years ago, has married and … Read more

Alejandro Zambra: Bonsái (Bonsai)

The latest addition to my website is Alejandro Zambra‘s Bonsái (Bonsai). This is a clever, witty, post modern novel about sex/romance with literary undertones. Our main character is Julio who starts an affair with Emilia. We learned from the first sentence that she is already dead though Julio himself does not learn about her death … Read more

Hamid Ismailov: дунёнинг энг гўзал шоири (We Computers)

The latest addition to my website is Hamid‘s дунёнинг энг гўзал шоири (We Computers). after This is a wonderfuly complex novel about a French poet, named Jon-Perse after the e Nobel Prize winning poet. Jon-Perse gets into computers to study the various poems he sees at the poetry magazine he works for and the aided … Read more