Classic tale of a disturbing, febrile obsession
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Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (1907-48, Turkey)
A classic Turkish novella largely set in Weimar Berlin
Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg by Emily Rapp Black (USA)
Fierce and fearless meditation on disabled identity, art, love and loss
A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler (Austria)
A quietly life-affirming study of the passage from childhood to old age of an unassuming man, shortlisted for the International Booker
Review no 116: The Transmigration of Bodies by Mexican author Yuri Herrera
AMERICAS AND THE CARIBBEAN Translated by Lisa Dillman This novella, first published in 2013, and published in English translation by And Other Stories in 2016, comes in at barely 100 pages, so I was able to read it in a single day. Set during a mysterious mosquito-borne pandemic, I found it to be a comically …
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Review no 115: A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
Reflections on art and life from Pulitzer-prize winning memoirist and novelist Hisham Mater
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