The Modern Novel

The Modern Novel

@modernnovel.bsky.social

Owner of themodernnovel.org

236 Followers 207 Following 94 Posts Joined Dec 2023
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Emil Hakl's of Kids and Parents about a father & son drinking around Prague & discussing everything shorturl.at/h1XEz tr Marek Tomin from@twistedspoon.bsky.social

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6 days ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Michal Viewegh's Bringing Up Girls in Bohemia about a writer who tries to educate the daughter of a brothel owner shorturl.at/xriTc tr. A.G. Brain, from by Readers Internation

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1 week ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Vladimir Paral's Catapult about a Czech man who makes a mess of changing his life shorturl.at/mLjL8 tr William Harkins from Catbird Press

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2 weeks ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Magdalena Platzova's Life After Kafka about Felice Bauer, Kafka's fiancée hhttps://shorturl.at/aYBgm tr @alexzucker.bsky.social fromBellevue Literary Press,

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2 weeks ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Petra Procházková's Freshta, about a Russian woman who marries an Afghani & lives with his extended family in Kabul PeAfghani l shorturl.at/KL7M7 tr @JuliaSherwood from from Stork Press

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3 weeks ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Kateřina Tučková's The Last Goddess about a curse on an extended family of Czech faith healers tr Andrew Oakland, frAmazon Crossing

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon:Jan Kresadlo's Gravelarks about a funeral singer blackkmailedby an evil communist https:// tr Václav Pinkava from shorturl.at/hVqGt from @jantarbooks.bsky.social

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon; Pavel Kohout's The White Book about a man who breaks the law of gravity and the consequences of so doing shorturl.at/ncxVu tr Alex Page fr George Braziller

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Alexandr Kliment's Living Parallel about an architect who has to choose between exile & home shorturl.at/ec1p3 tr Robert Wechsler from Catbird Press

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Pavel Bryzc's , City a kaleidoscopic fiction/non-fiction portrait of thr city of Most, narrated by the city itself shorturl.at/JU5PH, tr Joshua Cohen/arkéta Hofmeisterová from @TwistSpoonPress@twistedspoon.bsky.social

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Zdenek Jirotka's Saturnin , a a classic Czech comic novel with a devious Jeeeves-like valet shorturl.at/INJxI tr Mark Corner, from @karolinumpress.cuni.cz

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1 month ago
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Latest in my Czech marathon Miloš Urban' s Seven Churches, a Gothic thriller where medieval Prague is the main character shorturl.at/L3vLD Tr Robert Russell , from Peter Owen

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2 months ago
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First in my Czech marathon: Jiří Gruša's The Questionnaire about a man who tells his colourful life story in a job application shorturl.at/5JJyB tr Peter Kussi from@fsgbooks.bsky.social

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2 months ago

Brief intro to my forthcoming Czech marathon; shorturl.at/T9Lhg

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2 months ago
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Latest on my website: Adolfo Bioy Casares' TheInvention of Morel about a man shipwrecked on a desert island sudden;y joined by a large group of people who cannot see him shorturl.at/NUBUk tr Ruth L.C. Simms from@nyrb-imprints.bsky.social

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2 months ago
Annual Review 2025 – The Modern Novel As expected, I read fewer books this year (73 books at an average of 263 pages)fewer than previous years for a variety of reasons. One of the reasons, I have to admit, is that I've been spending far t...

Latest on my website: my annual review: www.themodernnovelblog.com/2025/12/31/a... All the best and good reading in 2026

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2 months ago
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Latest on my website: Samanta Schweblin's Fever Dream about the devastating effect of pesticide pollution on two families tr Megan McDowell from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social

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2 months ago
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Latest on my website: Iliya Troyanov's The Collector of Worlds about the explorer Richard Burton & his travels shorturl.at/3KUF0 tr William Hobson, from @faberbooks.bsky.social

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2 months ago
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Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's Singular Man about a 1930s Frenchman who does not fit in anywhere https://
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Tr Dominic Di Bernardi, from The Marlboro Press

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3 months ago
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Latest on my website: Francesco Aloia's Bloodlines, the tale of a young man related to a famous gangster shorturl.at/pcFZr tr. Graham Anderson fromDedalus Books

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3 months ago
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Latest on my website: Sarah Hall's Helm, a superb story with a wind as a main character shorturl.at/uMSqN from @faberbooks.bsky.social

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3 months ago
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Latest on my website: Pablo Martin Sanchez's The Anarchist Who Shared My Name about anarchists in early c20 Spain shorturl.at/Q92LN tr Jeff Diteman from @deepvellum.bsky.social

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4 months ago
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Latest on my website: Solvej Balles 'On The Calculation Of Volume 3 - more about the woman caught in a time loop shorturl.at/HyCvR tr Sophia Hersi Smith/Jennifer Russell from@ndbooks.bsky.social

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4 months ago
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Latest on my website: Touhfat Mouhtare's(The Fire Within about a Comorian woman's struggles against the system & strange forces shorturl.at/Bkcjc tr.Rachel McGill froDedalus Books

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4 months ago
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atest on my website: my re-review of Daniele del Giudice's A Fictional Enquiry about a journey to find why an Italian writer did not write shorturl.at/uHbAR tr @annemilanoappel.bsky.social from @newvesselpress.bsky.social

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4 months ago
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atest on my website: Iida Turpeinen's Beasts of the Seaa about humans & animal extinction shorturl.at/eNY6B tr. (David Hackston) from Maclehose Press

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4 months ago
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Latest on my website: Jon Fosse's Vaim. about 3 Norwegian men and one womn whose lives entangle shorturl.at/5WNVg. tr. Damion Searls, from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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4 months ago
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Latest on my website: Thomas Pynchon's Shadow Ticket a Pychonesque 1930s transcontinental detective novel shorturl.at/X1vVN

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5 months ago
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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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5 months ago
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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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