A work of fictional non-fiction that captivated even this physics-averse reader
Tag Archives: translated literature
Review no 146: Untraceable by Sergei Lebedev (Russia)
Topical, Novichok-influenced new Russian political thriller by Sergei Lebedev
Review no 132: Ali and Nino by Kurban Said (Azerbaijan)
Epic war romance set in war-torn Baku
Reading plans for January 2021 and blog plans for 2021
A look ahead at January 2021 … and the year ahead
Review no 124: The Yacoubian Building by Alaa Al Aswany (Egypt)
A wide-ranging, best-selling novel set in Hosni Mubarak’s Egypt that is more socially conservative than it thinks it is
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 112: The Pear Field by Nana Ekvtimishvili (Georgia)
A Georgian novel published in 2020 by Peirene about the residents of a school for abandoned children
Review no 85: The Discomfort of the Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld (Netherlands)
Child-perspective, sometimes shocking story of grief, set on a Dutch dairy farm
Review no 80: Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun (Sudan)
this collection of short stories is a quick and sometimes powerful read
Review no 79: Kiss of the Spider Woman – book by Manuel Puig (Argentina)
Entertaining, multi-layered 1970s Latin American tale, set in an Argentinian prison
