An intriguing mix of reportage, memoir, political history and recipe book as Witold Szabłowski interviews the former chefs to a handful of murderous dictators.
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Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjón (Iceland)
Translated by Victoria Cribb EUROPE Book 14 of my #20booksofsummer21 Time is whizzing by and I’m not sure if I’m going to get through all the 20 books on my list. I wish I’d counted the three “extra” books I read earlier in the summer! (Though that would mean going back and writing reviews.) Set …
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Visitation (Heimsuchung) by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)
Jenny Erpenbeck’s story of an East German house over the course of the 20th century
Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories by Svetlana Alexievich (Belarus)
Harrowing masterpiece, recording the wartime memories of those who grew up during the Second World War in Belarus
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann (Germany)
Historical fiction, taking in mysticism, folk tale and the 17th century’s Thirty Years War, with a light touch and sly humour
Benjamín Labatut: When We Cease to Understand the World (Chile) – review no 153
A work of fictional non-fiction that captivated even this physics-averse reader
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
