World Literature

If you are going to read this novel, make time to do so. There is no point in starting and then going off to do something else, for when you come back you will probably have to start again.

“an effervescent book, comprised of two equally well-rounded stories . . .”

“if you really care about something in life, do whatever it takes not to lose it.”

“many of the stories have the feel of being a novel in gestation.”

Nobel Laureate Kenzaburo Oe brings the novelist career of his literary alter-ego, Kogito Choko, to a close with the publication of his new novel, the most recent in the series, Death by Water

Michel Houellebecq, the enfant terrible of French letters, is no longer an enfant and Submission is far from terrible, but his latest novel is, as usual, an even

“a telling—and  pleasant—gateway into the talent of an artist well-worth knowing.”

“charming and vivid if erratic and sometimes offal.”

There are books that make us feel intensely and others that make us think deeply; one that does both is Gail Hareven’s opalescent and psychologically complex eleventh novel Lies, First Person

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“. . . a masterful novel of levels and depths, beautifully written and stunningly realized.”

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“. . . a deeper issue lingers, making one question where the exact dichotomy between ‘good and evil’ begins and ends.”