Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1994

quite liked wind-up bird before discovering that every single one of his novels involved a woman who disappeared (and maybe some jazz and probably cats)

enjoyed gun with occasional music but am not comfortable calling it the best of a year

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Voted "Wind-Up Bird"

The only one I've read is the Lethem and I didn't care much for it.

I should say, the Kelman is also really good, but I can't say I remember much about it, just that I thought the dialect was going to be barrier but it was so well-written that I ended up finding the dialect totally transparent.

every single one of his novels involved a woman who disappeared (and maybe some jazz and probably cats)

+ spaghetti. + running

think the running is a later (post-2000) development, "exoticised Western pop culture and geography" is a mainstay throughout

i know but i couldn't resist listing every murakami touchstone

+ fetishisation of random female body parts e.g. earlobes

+ wells

otm

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Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of 1995

Pereira maintains is the one I was anticipating in the last thread! Read it earlier this year & loved it, the gradual move away from trivialities is so well controlled (& whether the concerns of the literary mag count among the trivialities is an open q) - I also really enjoyed how the prose style has a superficial similarity to Bernhard but to such different effect