The latest addition to my website is Noémi Kiss-Deáki‘s Mary and the Rabbit Dream. Noémi Kiss-Deáki is Finnish but writes in English. This book is set in early eighteenth-century England. It tells the story of the historical Mary Toft. After her fourth miscarriage, while her cervix was still open, enabling rabbit parts to be inserted … Read more
The latest addition to my website is César Aira‘s Festival (Festival) and El juego de los mundos (Game of the Worlds), both published in one book called Festival Festival is about a film festival celebrating a Belgian film director who is hailed as an original artist though he seems only to have made B-list science … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Agnieszka Taborska‘s gnieszka Taborska: Niedokończone życie Phoebe Hicks (The Unfinished Life of Phoebe Hicks). Taborska tells the story of the fictitious Phoebe Hicks, who, is made ill by eating clam fritters in mid-19th century Providence, RI, and turns to spiritualism. While we see the traditional features of spiritualism … Read more
The latest addition to my website isJaroslav Rudiš‘Winterbergs letzte Reise (Winterberg’s Last Journey). Winterberg is a 99 year old man originally from what was Sudetenland. At the end of the war, German speakers were expelled and he went to Berlin. He now, with the help of his carer, Jan Kraus, plans to travel round Central … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Négar Djavadi’s Désorientale (Disoriental. The novel is narrated by Kimiâ, an Iranian bisexual living in Paris and, when we first meet her, trying medically assisted reproduction. She tells us about that but, in between, the fill and complex story of her extended family, who were in opposition both … Read more
The latest addition to my website is ‘s لا سكاكين في مطابخ هذه المدينة (No Knives in the Kitchens of This City). The novel follows an extended Syrian family from the the middle of the last century to the early twentieth century. The mother, from a well-to-do family, falls for a man from a poor … Read more