A fish-out-of-water tale that becomes something stranger.
Tag: Novel
Review: Moby Dick by Herman Melville
It’s about whales.
Review: The Sweetness Of Water by Nathan Harris
A heartfelt story of rebuilding a ruined society.
Review: Lucky’s by Andrew Pippos
A fable of the fickle nature of fortune.
Review: Parable Of The Sower by Octavia E. Butler
An eerily prescient vision of the climate-ruined near future.
Review: The Sunken Land Begins To Rise Again by M. John Harrison
A dense and watery novel about the madness of searching for meaning in our mad times.
Review: Minor Detail by Adania Shibli (translated by Elisabeth Jaquette)
A short, seething and immaculate novel about what it’s like living in Israeli occupied Palestine.
Review: Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock
An intriguing fantasy drawing on forest myths that is burdened by an unfortunate attitude to women.
Review: Revenge by S. L. Lim
A furious and thrilling novel about the “lives you might have had.”
Review: The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (translated by Howard Goldblatt)
A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.
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