Agualusa’s novel is an episodic, poetic and raw treatment of Angolan independence. Continue Reading Filtered Truth: A General Theory of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
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One can’t help but leave Pamuk’s novel feeling a little disconcerted. Continue Reading Life Is Like This: A Strangeness in My Mind by Orhan Pamuk
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I want to press this book aggressively into people’s hands. But its language, its length and the inclinations of its central character all call for restraint. Continue ...
Xenobe Purvis on Chinese novel about totalitarian madness: the third of her Man Booker International Prize reviews. Continue Reading The Ministry of Truth: The Four Books by Yian ...
In the run-up to the Man International Booker Prize announcement on May 16, Xenobe Purvis will be reviewing each of the sixth shortlisted books. First, The Vegetarian by South Korea’s ...
