End of Year Special Part 2

Katia 

Katia Nosenko 

1. Neprosti (The UnSimple in the initial translation) by Taras Prokhasko translated by Uilleam Blacker.  It will be published in English by Harvard University Press as a part of “Earth Gods”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Earth-Gods-Writings-Ukrainian-Literature-ebook/dp/B0CDSHL6JH/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_2?crid=24Y5W0P2AHREY&keywords=earth+gods+prokashko&qid=1701781407&sprefix=earth+gods+prokhasko%2Caps%2C74&sr=8-2-fkmr2
2. Shadow of forgotten ancestors by Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky. The film by Sergei Paradjanov with the same title made in 1965.
3. Stream System by Gerald Murnane
4. The Baudelaire Fractal by Lisa Robertson
5. Paris Spleen by Charles Baudelaire in translation by Louise Varese 
6. Nadja by Andre Breton
7. Man-eating Type Writer by Richard Millward
8. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
9. Birthday and An Episode in the life of a Landscape Painter by Cezar Aira
10. 10.Ava by Carol Maso
11. 11.Room by Youval Shimoni translated by Michael Sharp
12. 12.The Vivisector by Patrick White
13. 13.The melancholy of resistance by Lazlo Kraznokhorkai  translated by George Szirtes
14. 14.Tomas Neverson by Javier Marias translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
15. 15.Austral by Carlos Fonseca translated by Megan Mc Dowell

Look forward to:

1. Shimmering details by Peter Nadas
2. Tractatus Logicus by Wittgenstein: two new translations- by Peter Booth and by Damien Searls
3. A thousand thoughts in flight by Maria Gabriella Llansol
4. Salt Line by Youval Shimoni

Daniel Davis Wood 

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Upcoming from Splice 

 - Nathan Knapp - Daybook (April 2024)

• Greg Gerke - In The Suavity of The Rock (June 2024)

Highlights of 2023

Cormac McCarthy - The Passenger and Stella Maris and rereads of his other books 

Mathias Enard - The Annual Banquet of the Gravediggers Guild 

Oli Hazzard - Lorem Ipsem 

Luke Carmen - An Ordinary Ecstasy

James Salter - Light Years 

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet 

Amy Hempel - Collected stories. 

2024 Recommendations 

Blake Butler - Molly 

Jean Baptise Del Amo - The Son of Man

Marilyn Robinson - Reading Genesis 

Rob Moody-Corbett - Hides (Breakwater Books June 2024)

Iain Smith 

2023 Highlights 

Divine Days Leon Forrest 

Ridley Walker - Russel Hoban

Hurricane Season - Fernanda Melchor  

Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol 

Obscene Bird of Night - Jose Donoso 

Antagony  - Luis Goytisolo 

Mercè Rodoreda - Death in Spring 

The Combinations - Louis Armand 

A Bended Circuity - Rob Stickley 

White Dialogues - Bennett Simms 

2024 

Children of the Dead - Elfriede Jelinek

Chevengur -  Andrei Platonov

Peter Nadas - Shimmering Details 

Resta kaòtica - Ventura Ametller

Lies and Sorcery Elsa Morante 

Marshland - Otohiko Kaga 

The Mind Crimes of August  Saint - Alain Arias- Mission

Jan Kjærstad - The Seducer 

Praiseworthy - Alexis Wright 

Invidicum - Michael Brodsky 

Wild Horses - JORDI CUSSÀ

The Forbidden Line - Paul Stanbridge

Adam Biles - Feeding Time 

Yuval Shimoni - The Salt Line

Maidenhair - Mikhail Shishkin

Guðbergur Bergsson - TÓMAS JÓNSSON, BESTSELLER

Ali Millar 

Best of 2023

Bret Eason Ellis - The Shards 

Man Eating Typewriter - Richard Milward 

Oliver Mol - Trainload 

Ali’s book Ava Anna Ada is out From White Rabbit 

A.V. Marrachini 

Garden of Seven Twilights - Miguel De Palol 

The Japanness in Architecture 

10th Century Han Poetry 

Hanging Out -  Sheila Liming

Balzac 

Sublunar - Harald Voetmann

Mark A Henry 

The Supply Chain - by Aaron Schneider 

Late -  Michael Fitzgerald 

Golem of Brooklyn - Adam Mansbach

Pynchon Gravity’s Rainbow

The Maniac - Benjamin Labatut 

Peter Orner 

Light in August - Falkner

Tom Drury - The Driftless Area 

Primo Levi - Moments of Reprieve 

Taylor Johnson - Inheritance 

Looking forward to reading 

Virginia Woolf - The Waves

Grahame Greene - The Power and the Glory 

Black Paper - Teju Cole