The Husbands by Holly Gramazio (2024)
admin When Lauren arrives home, quite drunk, from her best friend Eleni’s hen do, she is surprised and alarmed to find a man in her house. What’s more, the man says…
Second Place by Rachel Cusk (2021)
Set on a property in the Norfolk marshlands (where in real life Cusk lives with her third husband, a painter), the novel is narrated by M, a writer who lives…
Blackouts by Justin Torres (2023)
The novel revolves around the life of the Narrator, a man in his late twenties, who has experienced multiple stays in mental asylums. He is a biracial individual with a…
Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (2021)
This is a postmodern literary novel divided into thirteen numbered chapters, set in 1995 Switzerland. The book’s first-person narrator, called Christian Kracht like the author, is also the main character…
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck (2021)
The novel tells the story of the intense and complex relationship between Hans, a middle-aged novelist, and Katharina, a young woman in East Berlin during the late 1980s. Their relationship…
Nothing Special by Nicole Flattery (2022)
The novel begins in 2010, with the narrator, Mae, recalling her mother’s obsession with a children’s farm animals book. Her mother, often drunk, would insist all animals were sheep, and…
Blue Ruin by Hari Kunzru (2024)
The narrator, a man in his forties born in the UK, finds himself working undocumented in the US during the pandemic, doing menial jobs due to a lack of documentation.…
黄色い家 (Sisters in Yellow) by Mieko Kawakami (2023)
A gritty noir page-turner weaving together family, money, and crime, Mieko Kawakami’s Sisters in Yellow follows a girl as she sheds the shackles of her upbringing and seeks to break…
むらさきのスカートの女 (The Woman in the Purple Skirt) by Natsuko Imamura (2019)
The story is narrated by The Woman in the Yellow Cardigan, who becomes infatuated with a woman known as “The Woman in the Purple Skirt” in her neighbourhood. The narrator’s…
Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (2024)
In this novel, the narrator, a poet and teacher living in Iowa, experiences a sudden and severe pain in his stomach and back, leading to his eventual collapse. His partner,…