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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 19h

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

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 3d

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. Tr, @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, from @sevenstories.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 11d

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

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 17d

Latest on my website: Tayib Salih's Season of Migration to the North about a Sudanese man who cannot fit in https:// Trshorturl.at/qreaP Tr Denys Johnson-Davies, from Kegan

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 21d

atest on my website: Sultan Raev's Castigation, a Kyrgyz novel about 7 escapees from a post-Soviet asylum looking for the Holy Land shorturl.at/6jXw5 trShelley Fairweather-Vega, from @syracuseup.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 27d

Latest on my website: Amélie Nothomb's So Much the Better about a Belgian family, cats and a wicked grandmother. shorturl.at/CsfXg from Albin Michel

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Sep 8

Latest on my website: Dragan Velikić's The Investigator about a Serbian writer exploring his life, that of his family and the murky history of the region shorturl.at/zFNVG tr. Christina PribiCheviCh-Zorić, from Istros Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Sep 3

atest on my website: Olufemi Terry's Wilderness of Mirrors about a young South African creole man breaking out of his shell shorturl.at/PrKBF fromRestless Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 30

Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's My Friends shorturl.at/lh6iB, about a wounded French WW1 veteran, who just wants a friend shorturl.at/lh6iB tr. Janet Louth from @nybooks.com‬s

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 29

Latest on my website: Alejandro Zambra's Bonsai a witty postmodern tale of love, lust & literature shorturl.at/9T30p tr.Megan McDowell [email protected]‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 28

Latest on my website: Ibrahim Al-Koni's Gold Dust about a man, his camel and a bag of gold dust. shorturl.at/q8I80 tr. Elliott Colla, from @aucpress.bsky.social‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 21

Latest on my website: Hamid Ismailov' We Computers about AI, French & Persian poetry & love tr Shelley Fairweather-Vega shorturl.at/i5bCF. . [email protected]‬

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 15

Latest on my website:Syaman Rapongan's Eyes of the Ocean . a creative autobiography by an ocean-loving man from an island near Taiwan shorturl.at/tWzkB tr. Darryl Sterk, [email protected]‬

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 9

Latest on my website @fadizaghmout.bsky.social‬
's The Man of Middling Height about a society divided by height rather than biological sex shorturl.at/XzS9j tr. Wasan Abdelhaq from @supress1ve.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Aug 6

Latest on my website: Kaori Lai's Portraits in White, 3 novellas about life in pre-democracy Taiwan shorturl.at/C073N tr bySylvia LiChun Lin and Howard Goldblatt from @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 30

Latest on my website: Iliya Troyanov's (The Lamentations of Zeno about a glaciologist in Antarctica who cannot cope with human damage to the environment shorturl.at/SNouJ tr Philip Boehm, from @versobooks.bsky.social‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 26

Latest on my websiteLydie Salvayre's The Lecture, a brilliant satire of a pompous Frenchman giving a lecture on the art of conversation shorturl.at/zpysN tr.Linda Coverdale fro,[email protected]‬

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 23

atest on my website: Maylis de Kerangal's Mend the Living about a heart transplant from death of the donor & stories of all involved shorturl.at/n3sXs tr. Jessica Moore fr Maclehose Press

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 17

Latest on my website" Lydie Salvayre's The Award, a brilliant satire on labour relations in a car factory shorturl.at/iNfT5 tr. Jane Davey, from your Walls Eight Windows

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 15

Latest on my website: Germano Almeida's he Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo a novel from Cape Verde about a man of contradictions whose will opens up a can of worms shorturl.at/UvPZc tr Sheila Faria Glaser, from @ndbooks.bsky.social‬

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jul 8

Latest on my website: György Spiró 'sCaptivity, an epic story of a Jewish-Roman at the beginiing of the 1st millennium shorturl.at/JXgI2 tr. Tim Wilkinson, fr. Restless Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jun 25

Latest on my website: peter Stamm's Unformed Landscape about a Norwegian woman trying to find her way shorturl.at/QRHIN tr. Michael Hofmann, from Other Press

The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jun 18

Latest on my website.: Wu Jianren'sThe New Story of the Stone, a fururistic updating of the classic Story of the Stone shorturl.at/Apdsa tr. Liz Evans Weber from @ColumbiaUP @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jun 10

Latest on my website: Tsering Döndrup's The Red Wind Howls qbout the Chinese takeover of Tibet shorturl.at/wDtF9 tr. Christopher Peacock from @columbiaup.bsky.social‬

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · Jun 8

Latest on my website : Anna Lidia Vega Serova's Ánima fatua about a half-Cuban, half-Russian woman struggling to fit in shorturl.at/owqL0 tr @robmunb.bsky.social‬ from @amaurea-press.bsky.social

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