Child-perspective, sometimes shocking story of grief, set on a Dutch dairy farm
Tag Archives: translated literature
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
Review no 78: Restless by Kenneth Moe (Norway)
Norwegian despair
Review no 67: The Wall by Austrian writer Marlen Haushofer (1920-70)
My review of a 60s novel of life in an Austrian feminist-lite dystopia – can’t be worse than anything we’re experiencing right now can it? Oh, wait.
Review no 64: Loop, book by Brenda Lozano (Mexico)
Rambling account of a long wait
Review no 63: Too Long a Solitude, book by Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal (1914-97)
Translated from the Czech by Michael Henry Heim EUROPE I’d heard lot of praise for communist-, samizdat-era writer Bohumil Hrabal, so he felt like the obvious initial choice for a Czech writer. The protagonist of Too Loud of Solitude works feeding books – and occasional families of mice – into a paper compacting machine, in […]
Review no 62: Velibor Čolić, The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Incoherent, mercifully short fictionalised biography of Modigliani
Review no 61: Baho! A Novel by Roland Rugero (Burundi)
A strange little book from Burundi
Review no 54: The Attack, book by Yasmina Khadra (Algeria)
Translated from the French by John Cullen NORTH AFRICA, MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA Yasmina Khadra is the nom de plume used by veteran Algerian army officer Mohammed Moulessehoul, who now lives in France. He has written several novels that have been translated into English, including this one, The Attack, which has been shortlisted for […]
