Not all messages are displayed:
show all messages (58 of them)
I never get tired of recommending Cees Nooteboom on here but "Rituals" and "In The Dutch Mountains" are short and ace. "The Following Story" I enjoyed less, even though it's of a similar length.
I have read a lot of Barbara Comyns over the past few years, and each novel's pleasingly brief. I'd recommend "The Vet's Daughter" and "Who Was changed and Who Was Dead" over the more readily available "Our Spoons Came From Woolworths".
There are tons more and I'm having trouble bringing them to mind, but a fe follow: "Gardener To The King" by Frederic Richaud is v slim and v wonderful. "Silk" by Alessandro Baricco is tinier but less marvellous, still pretty good. "Sweetness" by Torgny Lindgren is fab. Also all of the Jean Echenoz I've read is well worth the short time necessary to read it (I've read "I'm Off", "One Year", "Double Jeopardy" and "Piano"). That's not supposed to be as backhanded a compliment as it sounds!
Michel Faber's two novellas "The One Hundred And Ninety Nine Steps" and "The Courage Consort" are his best work, I think.
I haven't read a book over 350 pages for ages. I'm a bit scared of Frank Kogan's tome, for that reason (while looking forward to it vey much, obv).
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 24 March 2006 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
I've just read "The Paper House: a novel" by Carlos Maria Dominguez, which runs to 103 small-format pages, including illustrations, and shouldn't trouble you for much more than an hour or so. It's a tale of the perils of bibliophila run out of control, I like it.
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 3 April 2006 09:22 (eighteen years ago) link
beckett, mercier and camier
i wonder whether there might be reason not to call it a novel. i wonder whether someone more knowledgable than me could go through this thread and point out which ones might not 'really' be novels. also whether there are any that are 'lyric novels'.
― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 13 April 2006 11:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Wow. That must have been bad spam!
"East is East" by T. C. Boyle
"Rich in Love" and "Dreams of Sleep" by Josephine Humphreys (but not her new one set in North Carolina, I forget its name)
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link
seventeen years pass...