A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier, Emily Boyce (Translator)
What an odd little book. Bills itself as noir but veers close to black comedy. It is French so perhaps I should have expected weird … :-)
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Job: A New Translation by Edward L. Greenstein
Greenstein’s Job is a bold, highly original challenge to centuries, if not millenniums, of scholarship and theology. It is a no-holds-barred assertion of a new...
The Great and the Good by Michel Deon
The book is intriguing because it almost feels like a classic. A classic in the sense that it captures the time period perfectly - 1950's America as an industri...
The Eskimo Solution by Pascal Garnier
I usually stray away from noir-themed books due to their very nature, but this book intrigued me based on the plot. Like all noir novels, this is a bleak and de...
The Land of Dreams by Vidar Sundstol
Those interested in Scandanavia crime novels and/or the Great Lakes Region will surely want to check this one out (unless you can read Norwegian and have alread...