Book review: Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
Posted on Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Esi Edugyan is a renowned Canadian author of Ghanaian descent. Her newest novel Half-Blood Blues was published earlier this year and has found itself on the short lists of many celebrated awards from the Man Booker Prize to the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and it walked away with one of Canada’s leading literary [...]
continue readingBook review: We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
Posted on Friday, January 28th, 2011
The author and political commentator Carsten Jensen hails from the Danish town of Marstal, in the South of Funen Archipelago, and it’s the people of this coastal town, and their relationship to the sea, that forms the central thread of the novel.
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