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Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out shorturl.at/kSSkg tr @dugdale_sasha from @FitzcarraldoEds /@NewDirections

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Latest on my website Solveig Balle's On the Calculation of Volume 4, more adventuresof people permanently trapped on 18 November shorturl.at/3mvg6 tr Sophia Hersi Smith 7 Jennifer Russell from @ndbooks.bsky.social

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Latest on my websiteMaria Stepanova's Disappearing Act about a novelists lost in Europe and finding her way out shorturl.at/kSSkg tr Sasha Dugdale from@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @ndbooks.bsky.socials

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Latest on my website: Viktor Domontovych's. The Girl with the Teddy Bear, about a traditional Ukrainian. man & a free-spirited young woman shorturl.at/IBYlg tr Steve Komarnyckyjfrom Dedalus Books

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ast in my Czech marathon: Bella Bellova's The Lake about a young man looking for his origins while the world goes to hell
shorturl.at/rTZqG Tr Alex Zucker, from P@parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Latest in my Czech marathon:Iva Pekarkova' s Truck Stop Rainbows about a woman who finds escape in hitchhiking shorturl.at/JTlsC tr David Powelstock fr@ireadvintage.bsky.social
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Latest in my Czech marathon: Jiří Weil's
Mendelssohn is on the Roof about an awkard statue and the Nazis 'brutality to the Jews in WWII shorturl.at/JlSt5 tr Marie Winn from @harper-collins.bsky.social

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Latest in my Czech marathon: Patrik Ourednik's Case Closed, a witty post-modern novel.mocking modern Czechia shorturl.at/9oh5e Tr Alex Zucker, fr @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

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atest in my Czech marathon: Jiri Kratochvil's The Vow about an architect who avenges his sister's death at the hands of the State shorturl.at/nnSv7 tr Charles S. Kraszewski, from@glagoslav.bsky.social

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Latest in my Czech marathon: Martin Vopenka's My Brother the Messiah, about a potential Messiah who appears in troubled times 100 years from now shorturl.at/Lsyt1 tr Anna Bryson Gustova, from barbicanpress.bsky.social

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Latest in my Czech marathon: Daniela Hodrova's A Kingdom, of Souls, a complex Dantesque novel where the living and the sead cross paths shorturl.at/rTgBc tr.Tatiana Firkusny and Véronique Firkusnyfrom Jantar

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

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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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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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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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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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