Showing posts with label February From the French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label February From the French. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Alice Brière-Haquet's PHAILANA (Tr Emma Ramadan)

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What if the Mothman (of prophecy fame) were a little girl named Manon, lost in Jack the Ripper's London? Being relentlessly pursued by ...

Colette's CHÉRI & THE END OF CHÉRI (Tr Rachel Careau, Narr Gabrielle de Cuir)

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A sort of anti-love love story in two phases, Colette's Chéri and the End of Chéri  takes very seriously an affair of the heart that was...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès' ISLAND OF POINT NEMO (Tr Hannah Chute)

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Was Hagbard Celine your bad literary boyfriend long before Hubertus Bigend burst on the spec fic scene? Is "The Talons of Weng-Chiang...
Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Yasmina Khadra's DOUBLE BLANK (tr by Aubrey Botsford)

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February from the French now takes me back to Algeria, back to crime fiction, back to Yasmina Khadra and his incredible detective-cum-noveli...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Virginie Despentes' BYE BYE BLONDIE (Tr Siân Reynolds)

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"Every time I find a guy I really like, I drive him nuts and he chucks me out... You know the effect I have on guys: at first they love...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Marie Ndiaye's THE CHEFFE: A COOK'S NOVEL (Tr Jordan Stump, Narr Edoardo Ballerini)

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Cuisine is an art form that still resists duplication. A painting can be made into prints, as can a film; a book can be re-printed in a vari...