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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Latest on my website: Thélyson Orélien's It Was That or Die about a Haitian who takes the long arduous route to Canada. but w as it written by AI? shorturl.at/cClNc frEditiond du bBoréal

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Latest on my website: Mathias Enard's Perfecting the Shot about a sniper who wants to be the best sniper of all during a bloody war shorturl.at/jFokh Tr @@avecsesdoigts.bsky.social(Charlotte Mandell) from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Latest on my website.: Vlady Kociancich's The Eighth Wonder about a gifted Argentinian man who gets lost in Berlin and elsewhere shorturl.at/C0NmZ tr eJsessica Sequeirafrom@sevenstories.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Latest on my website`Matthias Enard's Tell Them of Battles, Kings, and Elephant, an imagined tale of Michaelangelo designing a bridge over the Bosphorus shorturl.at WLhy9 tr @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social (Charlotte Mandell)from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Latest on my website" Moussa Konaté 'sHeadless in Kita Who decapitated the beggars in Kita and why? tr Susan Pickford fromDedalus Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Latest on my website: Marie Darrieussecq's Our Life in the Forest, a dystopian novel about robots, identity, clickers and clinical psychology shorturl.at/mDXcE tr Penny Hueston from @transitbooks.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Latest on my website Amélie Nothomb's The Adolescence of a parrot about a single man bringing up an adolescent parrot that behaves like a human adolescent shorturl.at/TEjkr from Albin Michel

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Latest on my website: Marie Darrieussecq's How to Make a Woman about two female friends who follow different paths shorturl.at rPenny Hueston from @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Latest on my website: Julien Gracq's The Sunset Lands about some men in a mythic kingdom who travel to the borders to help repel the barbarians at the gates shorturl.at/ifpXQ tr Georges Maclennan from @wakefieldpress.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Latest on my website: Antonio Penacchi's Mussolini's Canal about Mussolini, draining the marshes & a colourful family involved with both shorturl.at/Le3Uj tr Judith Landry from Dedalus Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

TheModernNovel @ModernNovel · 1s Latest on my website: Clara Usón's The Shy Assassin about a Spanish porn star's death - suicide, accident or murder & was the King involved? shorturl.at/PQwJY tr Lily Meyer, fromVanderbilt University Press

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Latest on my website: Emmanuel Bove's Armand about a WW1 veteran who has escaped poverty but finds his past coming back to haunt him shorturl.at/vRfft tr Janet Louthh from @carcanet.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Latest on my website:Ali Smith's Glyph shorturl.at/2rusf from Penguin Random House 🐧📷 @randomhouse.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Latest on my website: László Krasznahorkai'sChasing Homer)about a man flfleeing unknown assailant s and finding sanctuary with Homer shorturl.at/7WbDltr John Batki from @ndbooks.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Latest on my website: Sami Tchak's The Continent of Everything and Practically Nothing) a Frenchman studying African ethnology finds it complicated . shorturl.at/pL350 Tr @J_Jeffrey Zuckerman , fromSeagull Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Latest on my website: A Very Cold Winter about the travails of an extended family in Milan in the cold winter of 1947 shorturl.at/v8tOj Tr Julia Nelsen from @transitbooks.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

aLatest on my websitAndrei Kurkov's The Lost Soldiers - Russian soldiers disappear from a bathhouse leaving their clothes behind. Our hero investigates.Tr@bdralyuk.bsky.social from @harpercollins.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Latest on my website: Can Xue's the Enchanting of Others bout life and literature intertwining shorturl.at/M54Op tr Annelise Finegan from@yalepress.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Latest on my website: Marlen Haushofer's The Fifth Year about a four year old girl who brings back a life spirit to her family post WWII shorturl.at/wRDqf tr@shaunwhiteside.bsky.social from @ndbooks.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Latest on my website: Moacyr Scliair's(The Woman Who Wrote The Bible , a witty satire about a woman who wrote the early parts of the Bible shorturl.at/PSaja tr Heath Wing, from @unmpress.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Latest on my website: Antoine Volodine's The Monroe Girls about a post-post-Soviet dystopia where the dead are not always dead shorturl.at/nKuaP tr.Alyson Waters from @archipelagobooks.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Latest on my website:Aanna Albinus' Revolver Christi - a strange gun, a stranger Christian sect and a police officer who finds his family involved more than he thought shorturl.at/2wa0a trRachel Farmer from Sedalus Books

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Latest on my website: Syaman Rapongan:'sThe Eyes of the Sky about the Tao people of Taiwan and one man's struggle with a giant fish shorturl.at/qNKSB tr Kyle Shernuk from @columbiaup.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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 @ireadvintage.bsky.social

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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

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The Modern Novel @modernnovel.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

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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