I read The Good Earth based on the recommendation of work colleagues from South Korea. I’d asked them to suggest authors and novels from their country so was surprised when they chose this book because it’s set in China rather than Korea and the author Pearl Buck was an American. But they were such […]
Patrick Modiano’s Paris Nocturne doesn’t merely convey atmosphere; it oozes forth in every section, every page, every paragraph. Dreamlike, mysterious, unsettling; this is a book that begins with a puzzle and ends without answers. In between Modiano adds layer upon layer of obscurity. Paris Nocturne opens with an accident. The unnamed narrator, a young man in his […]
You wait all year and then two mega literary events come along on the same day. Battle of the Books Tomorrow is Super Thursday in the UK, the busiest day in the publishing calendar; the day when publishers issue more titles than on any other day in the year. It’s an attempt to capture a sizeable chunk of the […]