family – Reading and Viewing the World: Books, Film and Art

Reading and Viewing the World: Books, Film and Art

There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced editor and UK-based arts obsessive doing an off-duty project to look at at least two books, a film and an artist from each country in the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts regularly. See Archive/Links by country for my recommendations and to track my progress. Started Aug. 2019.

Review no 113: Dhalinyaro (Jeunesse or Youth), a film from Djibouti

Charming coming of age tale from Djibouti

Review no 110: film A Screaming Man (Chad)

NORTH AFRICA (In French and Arabic with English subtitles) This October, during Black History Month in the UK, Africa in Motion (Scotland), Afrika Eye (Bristol), the Cambridge African Film Festival (CAFF), Film Africa (London) and Watch-Africa Cymru (Wales) have all come together to provide an opportunity to watch some of the best African films of the past […]

Review no 109: The Sickness by Alberto Barrera Tyszka (Venezuela)

Mordantly humorous and thoughtful short novel from a Venezuelan writer

Review no 101: Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (Italy)

Translated by Jenny McPhee EUROPE “Even though the story is real, I think one should read it as if it were a novel, and therefore not demand of it any more or less than a novel can offer … memory is ephemeral, and … books based on reality are often only faint glimpses and fragments […]