It’s as if the lead character of a madcap Hunter S Thompson novel has stumbled into a Graham Greene thriller – that’s the best way I can hope to set the scene for Rafael Bernal’s 1969 cult classic The Mongolian Conspiracy.
Tag: book reviews
So I finally finished Shantaram…
I must’ve started reading this 933 page epic a year or so ago. From the first chapter I knew I loved it. And yet it took me so long to actually get through it. I realise now that I didn’t want to part with it.
Short story lovers must read this beautifully devastating new Akiyuki Nosaka collection
There is a paradox in all great short stories: they leave large marks that bely their stature. Like a tiny comet crashing to Earth, they are brilliantly devastating forces of nature that make a hell of a profound impact.
Lost and found: The Gradual Disappearance of Jane Ashland by Nicolai Houm is a novel yearning for discovery
Often when reading narratives that decide to play with time, jumping back and forth without warning, I wonder if the book would hold up as well if it were rearranged in chronological order.
The dark, beautiful magic of reading Russian master Gaito Gazdanov’s stories for the first time
There’s a tenderness within Gazdanov that seems to recall Carson McCullers or Anne Tyler
Why you should read You Were Never Really Here in one sitting
And when the narrative stops on a dime after an ice-cold 97 pages, you’re left wanting more.
