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Mathias Énard’s Compass is one of the most intellectually stimulating novels I have ever read: a hypnotic, melancholic, and erudite meditation on memory, history, love, and cultural identity. Part love story, part cultural essay, and part insomniac stream of consciousness, the novel transforms a single sleepless night in Vienna into […]
A few thoughts about about one of my favourite books I have read recently, Brotherhood (Terre Ceinte) by the Senegalese writer, Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a winner of the French prestigious 2021 Prix Goncourt for La plus secrete memoire des hommes (Men’s Most Secret Memories). Written with maturity and unmatched sensitivity […]