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.
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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
Unlocking a riveting Japanese mystery: Masako Togawa’s The Master Key review
Themes of security, honour, obligation and voyeurism converge into something enticing and engaging under Togawa’s pen.
A great Japanese novella blossoms: Exploring Spring Garden
Tomoka Shibasaki’s Spring Garden is quietly a great many things, but primarily it appears to be a meditation of seasonality. Buildings are constructed in the spring, flourish in the summer, recede in the autumn and are knocked down in the winter to be rebuilt in the spring again. Their inhabitants follow a similar cycle. They…
Requiem for the Detective Novel: The case for Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s 1958 masterpiece The Pledge
What really happens to a policeman who can’t solve his most important case? What becomes of a pillar of society whose foundations are crumbling?
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