The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Laurent Binet's HHhH, now out in English.
I had high hopes for this; they were not met.
It is amusing to see that several reviewers and commentators have mistaken the French prize this book did win -- the 'prix Goncourt du premier roman', a first book prize -- for the much, much more prestigious and well-known 'prix Goncourt' -- as, for example, James Ley claims in The Age that it: "already won France's premier literary award, the Prix Goncourt". No doubt the publishers are in no great hurry to correct that misunderstanding .....
I had high hopes for this; they were not met.
It is amusing to see that several reviewers and commentators have mistaken the French prize this book did win -- the 'prix Goncourt du premier roman', a first book prize -- for the much, much more prestigious and well-known 'prix Goncourt' -- as, for example, James Ley claims in The Age that it: "already won France's premier literary award, the Prix Goncourt". No doubt the publishers are in no great hurry to correct that misunderstanding .....