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Tag: Novel

Becoming and Belonging in Claudia Durastanti’s Strangers I Know

29th November 202229th November 2022  Vartika Rastogi

Claudia Durastanti’s luminous novel, Strangers I Know, traverses multiple identities, migrations and languages, and considers how ‘art can free an individual from difference, and difference from solitude’, writes Vartika Rastogi.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: autofiction, Books in translation, Claudia Durastanti, Elizabeth Harris, Fitzcarraldo, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Novel, Strangers I Know, translated fiction, Women in Translation

‘You had to tell children the truth’: intergenerational bonds, backlashes, secrets and alliances in Veronique Olmi’s Daughters Beyond Command

14th November 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Family ties are challenged and remade during politically divisive and tumultuous times in Véronique Olmi’s intimate and brilliantly written novel, Daughters Beyond Command.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alison Anderson, Books, daughters, Daughters Beyond Command, Europa Editions, Feminism, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Literature, literature in translation, mother-daughter relationships, Motherhood, Novel, Véronique Olmi

An excerpt from The Storyteller by Faiqa Mansab

29th August 202229th August 2022  Faiqa Mansab

In this delicious excerpt from her upcoming novel – a work about mother-daughter relationships, storytelling, women and murder – Faiqa Mansab has her heroine, feminist scholar Layla, discuss the role of food in myths and rituals whilst eating freshly cooked biryani with friends and family.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Bible, Faiqa Mansab, fairy tales, Fiction, Food, Mythology, Novel, preview, Quran, religion, Sufism

In conversation with author Sheena Patel: ‘Say the thing that you’re not supposed to say. The thing you normally keep quiet about.’

23rd August 202223rd August 2022  Emma Korantema Hanson

Writer Emma Korantema Hanson talks with author and director Sheena Patel about her debut novel, I’m a Fan, her self-created genre of “faction”, her literary influences, re-writing Black and Brown characters, the need for new (not nostalgic!) stories, and the pressure of perfectionism.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Books of 2022, debut novels, Emma Korantema Hanson, I'm a Fan, Interview, Novel, Rough Trade Books, Sheena Patel

The Pachinko Parlour by Elisa Shua Dusapin, translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins

17th August 202217th August 2022  Emily Walters

In mesmeric and evocative prose, rendered masterfully into English by translator Aneesa Abbas Higgins, author Elisa Shua Dusapin weaves a novel about familial loss and dislocation, and the fragile ties that hold us together, writes our contributor Emily Walters.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Aneesa Abbas Higgins, Daunt Books Originals, Elisa Shua Dusapin, Emily Walters, Novel, Review, The Pachinko Parlour, Translation, Women in Translation, Women in Translation Month 2022

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Awaeke Emezi – a bold romance novel with a poetic twist

10th August 202210th August 2022  Rojbîn Arjen Yigit

Awaeke Emezi’s latest novel is a romance with a difference. Slowly unfolding the narrative with their characteristic poetic prose, Emezi gives us a story of love surviving grief, life after death, and sex by the sea.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Awaeke Emezi, Faber, Faber Books, Novel, Review, Rojbîn Arjen Yigit

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

20th June 202223rd June 2022  Rebecca Clark

In her captivating novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield tenderly and credibly depicts the pain of absence, loss and transformation often experienced in romantic relationships.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Book Review, Books, Fiction, Gothic Fiction, Julia Armfield, Novel, Our Wives Under the Sea, Picador, Rebecca Clark, Salt Slow

Had One Thing Changed by Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

23rd May 202223rd May 2022  Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood

The joy of love is often coupled with the fear of loss. Here, novelist Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood recalls how anxiety before her wedding returned her to the impermanence of life, to its multiple pathways and infinite realities, as explored in her new book, The Constellations of Eve.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Abbigail Nguyen Rosewood, Books, buddhism, Constellations of Eve, death, grief, Had One Thing Changed, loss, love, Novel, relationships

The Essay, The Object and The Re-mix: de-centring the human in The Opposite of a Person by Lieke Marsman review

15th May 2022  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

Lieke Marsman’s brilliantly ‘cool’ novel, The Opposite of a Person (translated by Sophie Collins), is at once a novel about love and language, people and the individual, nature and the ideas we wield over the natural world, writes Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Books in translation, Daunt Books, Daunt Books Originals, Environment, Lieke Marsman, Novel, Sophie Collins, The Opposite of a Person, translated fiction

The Wonders by Elena Medel

7th April 20227th April 2022  Rym Kechacha

Moving between the lives of several generations of women in Spain, Elena Medel’s beautifully observed debut novel, The Wonders, examines class and the impact of poverty on family relationships and aspirations.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: class, Elena Medel, literature in translation, Lizzie Davis, Novel, Pushkin Press, Rym Kechacha, The Wonders, Thomas Bunstead

The Second Woman by Louise Mey, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie

17th January 202217th January 2022  Suzannah Ball

In Louise Mey’s beautifully written psychological thriller, The Second Woman, a grieving ‘crying’ man is not what he seems – and neither is the story of his missing wife.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: #MeToo, Books, Books of 2021, domestic abuse, gender-based violence, Lockdown, Louise Mey, Louise Rogers Lalaurie, Novel, psychological thriller, Pushkin Press, The Second Woman

Interview with author Sara Jaffe: ‘I wanted to think about queerness in a really close and experiential way that precedes a coming-out moment’

2nd November 20213rd November 2021  Anna Kate Blair

Anna Kate Blair talks to author Sara Jaffe about why Dryland is an anti-coming-out novel, writers who have influenced her work, being published by the Queer UK-based Independent publisher Cipher Press, leaning into the awkwardness of writing about adolescence, music and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Kate Blair, anti-coming-of-age-novel, Baroque, BAROQUE Guest Editorial, Cipher Press, Denton Welch, Gwendolyn Brooks, Leanne Shapton, Lynne Tillman, Novel, queer literature, queer love, Queer Relationships, Sara Jaffe, swimming

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