The Modern Novel
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Latest on my website: Can Xue's the Enchanting of Others bout life and literature intertwining
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Latest on my website: Marlen Haushofer's The Fifth Year about a four year old girl who brings back a life spirit to her family post WWII
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Latest on my website: Moacyr Scliair's(The Woman Who Wrote The Bible , a witty satire about a woman who wrote the early parts of the Bible
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tr Heath Wing, from
@unmpress.bsky.social
13 days ago
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Latest on my website: Antoine Volodine's The Monroe Girls about a post-post-Soviet dystopia where the dead are not always dead
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tr.Alyson Waters from
@archipelagobooks.bsky.social
17 days ago
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Latest on my website:Aanna Albinus' Revolver Christi - a strange gun, a stranger Christian sect and a police officer who finds his family involved more than he thought
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trRachel Farmer from Sedalus Books
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Latest on my website: Syaman Rapongan:'sThe Eyes of the Sky about the Tao people of Taiwan and one man's struggle with a giant fish
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tr Kyle Shernuk from
@columbiaup.bsky.social
24 days ago
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Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out
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tr @dugdale_sasha from @FitzcarraldoEds /@NewDirections
28 days ago
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Latest on my website Solveig Balle's On the Calculation of Volume 4, more adventuresof people permanently trapped on 18 November
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tr Sophia Hersi Smith 7 Jennifer Russell from
@ndbooks.bsky.social
28 days ago
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Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out
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tr Sasha Dugdale
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@ndbooks.bsky.socials
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Latest on my website: Viktor Domontovych's. The Girl with the Teddy Bear, about a traditional Ukrainian. man & a free-spirited young woman
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tr Steve Komarnyckyjfrom Dedalus Books
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ast in my Czech marathon: Bella Bellova's The Lake about a young man looking for his origins while the world goes to hell
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Tr Alex Zucker, from
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about 1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon:Iva Pekarkova' s Truck Stop Rainbows about a woman who finds escape in hitchhiking
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tr David Powelstock
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about 2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Jiří Weil's Mendelssohn is on the Roof about an awkard statue and the Nazis 'brutality to the Jews in WWII
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tr Marie Winn from
@harper-collins.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Patrik Ourednik's Case Closed, a witty post-modern novel.mocking modern Czechia
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Tr Alex Zucker, fr
@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
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atest in my Czech marathon: Jiri Kratochvil's The Vow about an architect who avenges his sister's death at the hands of the State
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tr Charles S. Kraszewski,
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about 2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Martin Vopenka's My Brother the Messiah, about a potential Messiah who appears in troubled times 100 years from now
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tr Anna Bryson Gustova, from
barbicanpress.bsky.social
2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Daniela Hodrova's A Kingdom, of Souls, a complex Dantesque novel where the living and the sead cross paths
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tr.Tatiana Firkusny and Véronique Firkusnyfrom Jantar
2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything
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tr Marek Tomin
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2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Michal Viewegh's Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia about a writer who tries to educate the daughter of a brothel owner
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tr. A.G. Brain, from by Readers Internation
2 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Vladimir Paral's Catapult about a Czech man who makes a mess of changing his life
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tr William Harkins from Catbird Press
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Magdalena Platzova's Life After Kafka about Felice Bauer, Kafka's fiancée hhttps://shorturl.at/aYBgm tr
@alexzucker.bsky.social
fromBellevue Literary Press,
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Petra Procházková's Freshta, about a Russian woman who marries an Afghani & lives with his extended family in Kabul PeAfghani l
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tr @JuliaSherwood from from Stork Press
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Kateřina Tučková's The Last Goddess about a curse on an extended family of Czech faith healers tr Andrew Oakland, frAmazon Crossing
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon:Jan Kresadlo's Gravelarks about a funeral singer blackkmailedby an evil communist https:// tr Václav Pinkava from
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@jantarbooks.bsky.social
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon; Pavel Kohout's The White Book about a man who breaks the law of gravity and the consequences of so doing
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tr Alex Page fr George Braziller
3 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Alexandr Kliment's Living Parallel about an architect who has to choose between exile & home
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tr Robert Wechsler from Catbird Press
4 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Pavel Bryzc's , City a kaleidoscopic fiction/non-fiction portrait of thr city of Most, narrated by the city itself
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, tr Joshua Cohen/arkéta Hofmeisterová from @
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4 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Zdenek Jirotka's Saturnin , a a classic Czech comic novel with a devious Jeeeves-like valet
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tr Mark Corner, from
@karolinumpress.cuni.cz
4 months ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon Miloš Urban' s Seven Churches, a Gothic thriller where medieval Prague is the main character
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Tr Robert Russell , from Peter Owen
4 months ago
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First in my Czech marathon: Jiří Gruša's The Questionnaire about a man who tells his colourful life story in a job application
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tr Peter Kussi
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4 months ago
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Brief intro to my forthcoming Czech marathon;
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4 months ago
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Latest on my website: Adolfo Bioy Casares' TheInvention of Morel about a man shipwrecked on a desert island sudden;y joined by a large group of people who cannot see him
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tr Ruth L.C. Simms
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5 months ago
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Latest on my website: my annual review:
www.themodernnovelblog.com/2025/12/31/a...
All the best and good reading in 2026
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Annual Review 2025 – The Modern Novel
As expected, I read fewer books this year (73 books at an average of 263 pages)fewer than previous years for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons, I have to admit, is that I've been spending far t...
https://www.themodernnovelblog.com/2025/12/31/annual-review-2025/
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Latest on my website: Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream about the devastating effect of pesticide pollution on two families tr Megan McDowell from
@riverheadbooks.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Latest on my website: Iliya Troyanov's The Collector of Worlds about the explorer Richard Burton & his travels
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tr William Hobson, from
@faberbooks.bsky.social
5 months ago
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Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's Singular Man about a 1930s Frenchman who does not fit in anywhere https://
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Tr Dominic Di Bernardi, from The Marlboro Press
5 months ago
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Latest on my website: Francesco Aloia's Bloodlines, the tale of a young man related to a famous gangster
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tr. Graham Anderson fromDedalus Books
6 months ago
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Latest on my website: Sarah Hall's Helm, a superb story with a wind as a main character
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@faberbooks.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Latest on my website: Pablo Martin Sanchez's The Anarchist Who Shared My Name about anarchists in early c20 Spain
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tr Jeff Diteman from
@deepvellum.bsky.social
6 months ago
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Latest on my website: Solvej Balles 'On The Calculation Of Volume 3 - more about the woman caught in a time loop
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tr Sophia Hersi Smith/Jennifer Russell
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6 months ago
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Latest on my website: Touhfat Mouhtare's(The Fire Within about a Comorian woman's struggles against the system & strange forces
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tr.Rachel McGill froDedalus Books
6 months ago
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atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write
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@newvesselpress.bsky.social
7 months ago
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atest on my website: Iida Turpeinen's Beasts of the Seaa about humans & animal extinction
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tr. (David Hackston) from Maclehose Press
7 months ago
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Latest on my website: Jon Fosse's Vaim. about 3 Norwegian men and one womn whose lives entangle
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. tr. Damion Searls, from
@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Latest on my website: Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket a Pychonesque 1930s transcontinental detective novel
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7 months ago
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Latest on my website: Chrysoula Georgoula's Call Me Stratos) a novel about the effect of the Greek economic crisis on a Greek man,https://shorturl.at/7M3Z2 tr Marianna Avouri) fromIstros Books
7 months ago
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Latest on my website: Krisztina Toth's Reading The Eye of the Monkey, a dystopian novel about modern Hungart & its nasty government
shorturl.at/RQ8Y3
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@sevenstories.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Latest on my website: Bora Cosic's My Family’s Role in the World Revolution about a chaotic Serbian family struggling in WW2
shorturl.at/IsF4m
trAnn C. Bigelow from
@nupress.bsky.social
8 months ago
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Latest on my website: Tayib Salih's Season of Migration to the North about a Sudanese man who cannot fit in https://
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Tr Denys Johnson-Davies, from Kegan
8 months ago
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