I have wasted far too much time on Haruki Murakami’s new three volume 1Q84. Its one of those books which is just good enough to make you want to carry on reading, but not quite good enough to make you feel pleased to be reading it. Its of vast length, and I reached the end [...]
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I’ve linked to the Penguin edition of Effi Briest although the book is freely available in electronic format on Manybooks in what to me seems a perfectly good translation. I’m not the only one reading Effi Briest at the moment – you will be able to read more about the book as part of the German [...] Peirene Press has made quite a splash with its first three elegantly produced novels. All three are translations from European languages, all are short (approximately 125 pages) and they all share a precision of writing which might make other novels seem verbose and over-long. Portrait of the Mother as a Young Woman, the third in [...] Sometimes I think I must be missing something. Thomas Bernhard, according to his Wikipedia entry “is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era”. The novel before me, Old Masters, has its own Wikipedia page, and has been selected by Penguin to be included in its glossy new [...] Imagine an elderly uncle dying in Venezuela leaving you his fortune. You fly to Caracas to tie things up only to discover that your uncle has appointed as executor of the will, a businessman you have never heard of before, who professes a desire to settle things as quickly as possible but then adopts every [...] One of the purposes of reading is to give you an insight into other worlds, to help you understand what its like to be someone else, in a situation entirely different to your own. People without that curiosity have no need to read, and books like Settlement would be for them pointless. After all, [...] This book, Measuring The World, has had rather mixed reviews both on Amazon, and also by book bloggers such as ANZ Lit Lovers who wrote a thorough and convincing review, but from a rather different perspective from my own. The difference in opinions seems to lie in reviewers’ views on what I might call [...] To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Tin Drum, Gunther Grass’s publishers decided to co-ordinate publication of new translations in a wide range of languages. Gunther Grass gathered translators together in Gdansk, and Breon Mitchell, the translator into English reports that, Each day Grass sat down with us, read aloud [...] The English translation of Kahn and Englemann was published this year by the Canadian publisher Biblioasis, just three days after its author Hans Eichner died at the age of 87. Eichner, an Austrian Jew, was well-placed to write this story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary as they made their way through the trials [...] |
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