Translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador Books, 2022) It’s always a happy event for me when there’s a new Mieko Kawakami…
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Translated from Korean by Jamie Chang Concerning my Daughter is a Korean novel that explores and challenges the difficulties of being lesbian in an adamantly…
When I wrote my round-up of 2020, I had no idea that 2021 would be another year of restrictions and adaptations. I haven’t read as…
Translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador Books, 2021) Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs (also translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd…
Translated from French by Frank Wynne (Picador Books, 2021) Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational narrative The Art of Losing deals with the troubled legacy of the Algerian…
I had intended to post this piece in December, but the end of the year brought some unexpected challenges and I had to delay it…
Translated from Japanese by Sam Bett and David Boyd (Picador Books, 2020) Breasts and Eggs is a spectacular and delicate exposition of what it is…