Jenny Erpenbeck’s The End of Days was published one year before Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson, but […]
The Underground Girls of Kabul, by Jenny Nordberg
Reading Jenny Nordberg’s The Underground Girls of Kabul was a lot like reading Sophie’s Choice or Uncle Tom’s Cabin. There’s […]
Motherland, by Jo McMillan
Eleanor Mitchell raised her daughter to believe in the international struggle for workers’ rights. She […]
The First of July, by Elizabeth Speller
The Battle of the Somme began on 1 July 1916 and continued for the next […]
Jacob the Liar, by Jurek Becker
Is there such a thing as a good lie? Whenever this question comes up, I […]
The Rent Collector, by Camron Wright
Camron Wright’s uneven tale of redemption and education, The Rent Collector, is set in the very […]
The Meursault Investigation, by Kamel Daoud
“Mama’s still alive today” (Chapter I*). So begins Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation, the long-needed Arab version […]
Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi
Is there any relationship so fraught as the one between mothers and daughters? There is […]
The Stone Boy, by Sophie Loubière
I received a free copy of this ebook to review from NetGalley, on behalf of […]