Samanta Schweblin’s masterful Fever Dream was one of my favourite books in 2017 – a short, terrifying, and suspenseful tale set in bleak, rural Argentina featuring an unsettling, precocious child while exploring, among many things, the mother-child relationship and the concept of “the rescue distance.” It was brilliant, and since then, a couple of her…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Brandy Sour is the first book published by a new publisher on the block – Foundry Editions – whose mission is to discover new voices with a particular focus on translated literature from the Medite…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Last year, I discovered, read, and loved A Tiler’s Afternoon by Lars Gustafsson, and it went on to become one of my favourite books of the year. Unsurprisingly, I wanted to read more of his work, but most of his books are sadly out of print; certainly, they weren’t available on Blackwells, and I had…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Han Kang is one of my favourite authors – loved both The Vegetarian and The White Book – but inexplicably I did not read anything by her since then. She came into my orbit once again after being awarded the Nobel Prize, with her recently translated novel, We Do Not Part, peaking my interest. Such…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
The first two books I read for WIT Month in August were excellent – Nothing Grows by Moonlight by Torborg Nedreaas and Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer. While I originally planned to read another novel, as soon as Lili is Crying arrived by post, I suddenly felt I had to read it first. And it…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall is one of my favourite novels of all time; if you haven’t read it yet, it is certainly a worthy choice for the currently ongoing WIT Month. However, the novel that intro…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
I hadn’t heard of Norwegian author Torborg Nedreaas until Penguin published a rather enticing edition of her novel Nothing Grows by Moonlight this year and I decided to make it my first book …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
My latest addition to the Moomin shelf of the Tove Trove Library is the eighth book in the original series, first published in 1965.| Book Jotter
Multi-volume Danish series seems to be quite the fad at the moment; I loved Solvej Balle’s excellent On the Calculation of Volume 1, and now we have Asta Olivia Nordenhof’s seven-part ‘Scandinavian…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s novel "Heaven and Hell" takes place in a remote part of Iceland among fishermen who make their living on the Arctic’s ocean water. It's deeply moving for its spare, lyric style. Here's a review.| The Longest Chapter
Tuesday is the usual day of the week for new book releases. Of the many novels published this past Tuesday, here are some gems by authors both familiar and new to me that have my attention.| The Longest Chapter
X (erstwhile Twitter) might be a ghastly place nowadays, but it continues to remain a great source of book recommendations (for me at least), and thanks to Andrew Male (who writes wonderfully about…| Radhika's Reading Retreat
