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Category Archives: fiction
Cry, mother Spain by Lydie Salvayre (Maclehose)
“In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. A ceremonial ring on his venerable hand, the Most Reverend Archbishop of Palma pointed at the chests of the ‘guilty poor’, singling them out to … Continue reading
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Irene by Pierre Lemaitre (Maclehose)
“Alice, he said, looking at what anyone else would have called a young girl”. THIS first in a trilogy translated from the French is as brilliant as it is grotesque. Crime writing splits between those trying to do outdo each … Continue reading
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Tagged crimo, lemaitre, maclehose, morse, vornography
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The story of the lost child by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“From October 1976 until 1979, when I returned to Naples to live, I avoided resuming a steady relationship with Lila. But it wasn’t easy.” OF COURSE, it was not easy. Lila “remained the same restless creature with an irresistible force … Continue reading
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The vegetarian by Han Kang (Portobello)
“Before my wife turned vegetarian, I had always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way.” HAD this abrasive exercise in misogynic chauvinism, puppet women, mad dreams, bizarre pornography been written by a man I wager it might have … Continue reading
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Grief is the thing with feathers by Max Porter (Faber)
“There is a feather on my pillow.” THERE are only three characters here, the crow, the dad and twin boys sharing the grief after their mother dies. Each has their perspective. The dad: ‘wondering what to do. Shuffling around‘. The … Continue reading
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Tagged crow poems, faber, grief is the thing with feathers, hannah griffiths, max porter, ted hughes
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Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift (Scribner)
“Once upon a time, before the boys were killed and when there were more houses than cars, before the male servants disappeared and they made do, at Upleigh and at Beechwood, with just a cook and a maid, the Sheringhams … Continue reading
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“I saw Lila for the last time five years ago, in the winter of 2005”. FERRANTE starts the third book of her Neapolitan quartet with a burst of energy, bubbling to get on with things. She leaps forward, gathering her … Continue reading
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Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranon (Orbit)
“Pawnshops in Night Vale work like this. First you need an item to pawn.” IT is the tone of the Night Vale podcast that mesmerizes, a kind of surreal X Files, a slow smirk drawn across a nonsense universe … Continue reading
64 by Hideo Yokoyama (Riverrun)
“Snowflakes danced through the evening light.” THE publisher Riverrun is part of Quercus who famously unearthed the works of the late Stieg Larsson and thereby launched Scandi noire. So here we are again, only this time it is Japan and … Continue reading
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Tagged detecto, hideo yokoyama, japanese police drama, kidnap, murder, prefecture d, ransom, yoshinobu mikami
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The story of a new name by Elena Ferrante (Europa)
“In the spring of 1966, Lila in a state of great agitation, entrusted to me a metal box that contained eight notebooks”. NEW readers do not start here. The second part of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan passionatas is not a sequel, … Continue reading
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