The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Ismail Kadare's Twilight of the Eastern Gods.
A fairly early autobiographical novel, about his time in Moscow in 1958 (in the famous Soviet MFA programme that was the Gorky Institute), it's now available in the UK, with the US edition to come in November.
Some great scenes and lines, but few that can top the devastating break-up line with which the local lass the narrator picked up dismisses him:
A fairly early autobiographical novel, about his time in Moscow in 1958 (in the famous Soviet MFA programme that was the Gorky Institute), it's now available in the UK, with the US edition to come in November.
Some great scenes and lines, but few that can top the devastating break-up line with which the local lass the narrator picked up dismisses him:
I'm beginning to believe that you ... you too ... you are a writer !