Tag: Fiction

Three is the second book I’ve read after French author Valerie Perrin’s excellent book Fresh Water for Flowers. It was so good that I had high expectations from…

Ghost Wall is the first book that I have read by Sarah Moss, and it will likely be her last. Even though I had heard many great things…

The Historian is one of the books published in 2005, and it was very popular in those years. Last year, when I saw it in a charity shop,…

Vladimir is Julia May Jonas’ first book. “When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me.” the book begins,…

The Peculiar Life of a Lonely Postman is one of the books written by Canadian author Denis Theriault in 2005 that caught my attention because it contains lots…

The Hole was the first book I’ve read by Japanese author Hiroko Oyamada, and I think it will be the last. I hadn’t read anything from the Japanese…

I don’t remember when or why I bought The Invention of Morel. It probably intrigued me because Jorge Luis Borges wrote the foreword to the book. I didn’t…

The Light and the Dark was one of those books that I read just in time; it helped me and explained myself to me better than anyone else.…

Visitation is the first book by Jenny Erpenbeck I’ve read, and it will likely be her last as well. Despite realizing that I could not get along (with…

The House of Sleep is one of Jonathan Coe’s rather strange novels written in 1997. As a person who ponders a lot about sleep, the book’s subject caught…