Aiming to complete one more post before #ShortStorySeptember ends, I was plodding through Isaac Babel’s Odessa Stories when the Asian Review of Books popped into my inbox and with its very first review introduced me to Ayelet Tsabari, an Israeli-Canadian writer of Yemeni descent. Her family comes from the 800,000 Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews who […]| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
It might seem like excess, but I have three collections of stories by Isaac Babel (1894-1940): Collected Stories, translated by Walter Morison and with an introduction by Lionel Trilling. Published in Penguin Books in 1961, first published in 1957 by Criterion Books and bought in an OpShop in 2015. Red Cavalry and Other Stories, translated […]| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Dottie, the third novel from 2021 Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah, is #No11 of #20BooksofWinter, but despite the looming deadline (August 31) to read the other nine books, I have taken my time to …| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
Listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer’s Burger’s People (1979) is a superb novel about the collateral damage to family members of activists. …| ANZ LitLovers LitBlog
