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Tag Archives: fiction

Book review: Pyre by Perumal Murugan (India)

Something of a Gothic folk horror from India, translated from Tamil and nominated for the International Booker in 2023

Posted byimogenglad20th May 202320th May 2023Posted inbookTags: booker international, books, fiction, India, International Booker Prize, Perumal Murugan, prize nominees, Tamil, translated literature

Book review: History. A Mess. by Sigrun Palsdottir (Iceland)

Short Icelandic novel guaranteed to spark anxiety in anyone involved in academic research

Posted byimogenglad13th May 202313th May 2023Posted inbookTags: books, Europe, female writers, fiction, History. A Mess., iceland, novella, Peirene, translated literature3 Comments on Book review: History. A Mess. by Sigrun Palsdottir (Iceland)

Book review: Standing Heavy by Gauz (Côte d’Ivoire)

A short satirical book by this writer from the Côte d’Ivoire, longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2023

Posted byimogenglad15th Apr 202322nd Apr 2023Posted inbookTags: africa, books, Côte d'Ivoire, Cote d'Ivoire, Europe, fiction, Gauz, International Booker Prize, translated literature2 Comments on Book review: Standing Heavy by Gauz (Côte d’Ivoire)

Book review: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Israel)

A searing thriller dealing with guilt, privilege and immigrants in the Negev desert

Posted byimogenglad19th Mar 202320th Mar 2023Posted inbookTags: Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, books, female writers, fiction, israel, Pushkin Press, translated literature, Waking Lions2 Comments on Book review: Waking Lions by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen (Israel)

Classics Club #33 (My 2nd Spin)

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Posted byimogenglad15th Mar 202315th Mar 2023Posted inUncategorizedTags: books, classics club, Classics Club #33, fiction1 Comment on Classics Club #33 (My 2nd Spin)

Book review: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya)

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Posted byimogenglad23rd Feb 2023Posted inbookTags: africa, books, Dust, female writers, fiction, kenya, post-colonial fiction, Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor2 Comments on Book review: Dust by Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor (Kenya)

Book review: Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Austria, 1897-1976)

A newly reissued Austrian novella

Posted byimogenglad11th Feb 2023Posted inbookTags: Alexander Lernet-Holenia, austria, Baron Bagge, books, Europe, fiction, translated literature1 Comment on Book review: Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (Austria, 1897-1976)

Book review: Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (1944-2001, Germany)

Haunting story of a man’s efforts to uncover his past after discovering that he was sent to the UK on the Kindertransport as a five-year-old child

Posted byimogenglad5th Feb 2023Posted inbookTags: Austerlitz, books, Europe, fiction, germany, second world war, translated literature, W. G. Sebald4 Comments on Book review: Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald (1944-2001, Germany)

Book review: Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi (Finland)

Speculative fiction from Finland, with strange finds on a 19th century anthropological mission

Posted byimogenglad28th Jan 202328th Jan 2023Posted inbookTags: books, Europe, fantasy, female writers, fiction, Finland, NORDICfinds23, translated literature, Virve Sammalkorpi6 Comments on Book review: Children of the Cave by Virve Sammalkorpi (Finland)

Book review: Between Two Worlds by Miriam Tlali (South Africa)

Ground-breaking critique of apartheid by a black woman writer

Posted byimogenglad22nd Jan 2023Posted inbookTags: africa, banned fiction, between two worlds, books, female writers, fiction, miriam tlali, south africa4 Comments on Book review: Between Two Worlds by Miriam Tlali (South Africa)

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