Some New Additions to the Prose Shelves
Fiction:
Spain:
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, translated by Lucia Graves
Hungary:
Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy, translated by George Szirtes
Casanova in Bolzano by Sandor Marai, translated by George Szirtes
Algeria:
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, translated by John Cullen
Lebanon:
Balthasar's Odyssey by Amin Maalouf, translated by Barbara Bray
Samarkind by Amin Maalouf, translated by Russell Harris
Israel:
A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages by A. B. Yehoshua, translated by Nicholas de Lange
Antigua:
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
Norway:
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born
England:
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Last Orders by Graham Swift
U. S.:
The Brooklyn Novels: Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt, Low Company by Daniel Fuchs
Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
Stoner by John Williams
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Nonfiction:
Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World by Mark Kurlansky
The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean by Trevor Corson
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
Lost History: The Enduring Legacy of Muslim Scientists, Thinkers, and Artists by Michael Hamilton Morgan
In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong by Amin Maalouf, translated by Barbara Bray
posted by Hedgie at 8:30 PM
2 Comments:
Have you read these or are you about to read them?
These are relatively recent acquisitions; so far, I've read only 3 of them:
The Swallows of Kabul by Yasmina Khadra, translated by John Cullen
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson, translated by Anne Born
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis
The first is one I'm planning on including in a group of mini-reviews in a week or two.
The second, Out Stealing Horses, I thought was excellent right up until the end, where I was a bit disappointed that the various narrative threads weren't drawn together a bit better; despite that, I highly recommend it as it's (even in translation) a beautifully written novel.
The last, The Middle East, was okay as a general introduction to Middle Eastern history, although it tended to skip around a bit at times, and I thought the writer might have done a bit better with the last 60 years or so since the founding of Israel. But I certainly have a better background knowledge of the Middle East than I did before reading it.
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