Thoughts, views and reviews
Sometimes you strongly dislike a book from the very first page, reading on because of stubbornness or the belief that an International Booker prize winner has to have something more than meets the eye. So, I read on. The plot is this: after the mutilation of Mademba in World War I, Alfa, our narrator, is …
Continue reading “At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop”
Translated by Michele Hutchison Harsh, bitter, cruel, brutal. These are the words that could describe this novel the best. But, unfortunately for the world we live in, this novel feels true and genuine. How is this much hardship, so many problems and difficulties even possible in a life of a child. In a life of …
Continue reading “The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld”
A Literary Snob 