‘Klara and the Sun’ Explores What Makes Us Tick
‘Klara and the Sun’ is dappled with themes of personal identity and death, in one form or another.
‘Klara and the Sun’ is dappled with themes of personal identity and death, in one form or another.
What we experience in plowing through Mario Levrero’s ‘The Luminous Novel’ is cosmic-scale procrastination.
In William Gay’s posthumous ‘Fugitives of the Heart’, we find a dark coming-of-age tale of youthful lust tinged with comic relief.
J. Robert Lennon’s Subdivision is a very good novel presenting a very bad dream.
In award-winning Argentinian novelist Betina González’s ‘American Delirium’, the storylines tend to flirt with the uncertain borderline demarcating the merely zany from the farcical.
Sartori's Bug is a study in quirkiness, but it is founded upon a serious and complex substratum.
Tension is inescapable in Warren Read's story about a need to escape, One Simple Thing.
In Carl Neville's latest novel, Eminent Domain, he creates complexities and then shatters them into tiny narrative bits arrayed along a non-linear timeline.
If we venture out our front door we might inhale both a deadly virus and pinpoint flakes of ash. If we turn back in fear we may no longer have a door behind us.
Vigdis Hjorth's Long Live the Post Horn! is a study in existential torpor that, happily, does not induce the same condition in the reader.
Mathematician Alex Pavesi's debut novel, The Eighth Detective, posits mathematical rules defining 'detective fiction'.
Molly Pohlig's debut novel, The Unsuitable, applies a different twist to a guilty conscience.