Next week, Biblioasis are publishing the North American edition of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's 'The Heart of Man' (tr. Philip Roughton), and I've used the occasion as an excuse to reread, and reflect (at great length!) on the whole trilogy :)
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Just catching up on all the "Jane Austen is too hard for teens" drama on Twitter and was reminded of when my twelve-year-old daughter casually decided to check out 'Les Misérables' after watching the film...
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My May Wrap-Up post - a summary of a rather lean month on the blog...
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Some thoughts on They by Helle Helle www.stuckinabook.com/they-by-hell...
A business selling lingerie that helps “your spine and organs move back to where they’re supposed to be”; a girl who gets stuck in a doorway like "an uncooperative cork"; a book that starts with the end of the world; and a home flooded for a hydroelectric dam.
Me on new translated fiction:
After a bit of a break, I'm back to my chapter-by-chapter Genji coverage today, with a post that's longer than the chapter it's reviewing! Join me (and Genji and Tamakazura) for Chapter 27, 'Kagaribi'
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The UK has entered something of a heatwave, and I read They (2018) by Helle Helle entirely outside, in a couple of different parks in Oxford. It was originally in Danish, and translated by Martin A…
Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami; All Flesh by Ananda Devi; The White Desert by Luis López Carrasco; The Home of the Drowned by Elin Anna Labba
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If you haven’t heard much from my little helper Emily recently, it certainly has nothing to do with her losing interest in books. If anything, she’s been reading more than ever –…
May has been a rather trying month. In addition to the crappy weather bringing a couple of bouts of illness with it, I was very busy at work and also had to deal with two insurance issues (a sligh…
My final review for the month is of Shūsaku Endō's early novel 'The Sea and Poison', (translated by Michael Gallagher, published by Pushkin Press) a book that examines a doctor's involvement with some very dark acts during the Second World War...
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Something a little more niche today on the blog as I take a look at Paul Gordon Schalow's 'A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan' (from @UHPRESSNEWS) - let's hear it for the boys ;)
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