Kafkaesque novel of ideas by Mohsin Hamid
Category Archives: book
Passing by Nella Larsen (USA)
A 1929 novel focusing on ambiguous racial identity, that has surely inspired Brit Bennett’s bestselling 2020 novel ‘The Vanishing Half’
Review of the Kevin Barry book ‘Night Boat to Tangier’ (Ireland)
Two bantering Irish criminals contemplate life while waiting at a Spanish ferry port
We Had to Remove this Post by Hanna Bervoets (Netherlands)
A dystopian Dutch romance set in the world of content moderation
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
Claudine’s House by Colette (France)
Colette’s evocative memoir of a rural, animal-laden and loving French childhood
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1884-1937, Russia)
Speculative Russian dystopia from the 1920s
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)
Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
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