Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
Paraíso, Abdulrazak Gurnah, 3.60, 11,733 ratings, 287 páginas. Nobel Prize in 2021. Recommended by Jan, Café de Mendel, and intrigued, not so much by the Nobel Prize received by its author, as by the fact that it is a novel set in Muslim Africa on the eve of the First World War, when I saw […]| Silvia Cachia
The Legacy of Colonialism In 2021, the Swedish Academy surprised the literary world when it awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature—long considered the pinnacle of any literary career—to Tanzanian wr…| The Pine-Scented Chronicles
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books
Book reviews, snippets of book news, and alerts about books outside the glare of the publicity spotlight.| A life in books