THE PLOT: ‘Convenience Store Woman’ by Sayaka Murata (translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori) is a literary novel about a neuro-diverse woman living in Japan. Keiko has worked in a convenience store for eighteen years. She loves the store but when friends … Continue reading Review: Convenience Store Woman
THE PLOT: ‘Love in the Big City’ by Sang Young Park (translated by Anton Hur) is a literary coming-of-age novel about a gay Korean man in Seoul. Young spends his student days getting drunk with his female best friend Jaehee … Continue reading Review: Love in the Big City
The Plot: ‘At Night All Blood is Black’ by David Diop is a literary novel set during the first world war. It centres two Senegalese soldiers who are fighting for the French in the trenches. The novel opens with Alfa as … Continue reading Review: At Night All Blood is Black
THE PLOT: Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat is a short novel about a young girl living in occupied Palestine. The protagonist, Philistia, has grown up helping her Grandma Zahia who is a midwife and corpse washer. After her Grandma … Continue reading Review: Trees for the Absentees
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