The latest addition to my website is Chrysoula Georgoula‘s Λέγε με Στράτο (Call Me Stratos). The eponymous Stratos is a man of many faults but he does work hard. He had been working successfully as a roofer when working in the construction industry dried up he opened a car wash. His faults include drinking too … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Krisztina Tóth‘s A majom szeme ( Reading The Eye of the Monkey), . Tóth has had to leave Hungary for political reasons. This is a dystopian novel about a country called the uUified Regency which is clearly based on Hungary. Giselle, a university lecturerer in history in a … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Amélie Nothomb‘s Tant mieux [So Much the Better]. Our heroine is Adrienne, aged four in 1942 when she is sent to stay with her evil grandmother who treats her badly ill The grandmother finds that her cat is very fond ofAdrienne. ofAdrienne later learns that her mother and … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Kaori Lai‘s 白色畫像 (Portraits in White). This consists of three novellas which focus on three different people who lived in Taiwan during the dictatorship. The book aims to show how difficult it was for people at that time before democracy took hold in Taiwan. The first book is … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Lydie Salvayre‘s La Conférence de Cintegabelle (The Lecture). As the title tells us it is indeed a lecture given to the people of his small town, Cintegabelle. The lecture is about the art of conversation and a lecturer, who is not named, believes he is an expert on … Read more
The latest addition to my website isLydie Salvayre‘s La Médaille (The Award). The book consists of speeches given at a ceremony in a French car factory where medals are being handed out to long-serving/exemplary workers. The speeches are given alternately by a management representative and the employee. Management tries to show how much it has … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Anna Lidia Vega Serova‘s Ánima fatua (Anima fatua). This is an autobiographical novel about a woman born in Leningrad to a Cuban father and Russian mother. They emigrate to Cuba but the parents divorce and mother, daughter and son return to Russia where things do not go well. … Read more
The latest addition to my website is Yōko Ogawa‘ s 猫を抱いて象と泳 [Swim with an Elephant Holding a Cat]. Our hero is brought up by his grandparents but remains a loner. One day he meets a former bus driver, now massively overweight, who teaches him chess, both how to play and the philosophy behind it. However … Read more
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