Books in English

Kotimaisten kirjojen ja käännöskirjojen lisäksi luen paljon muilla kielillä. Eniten englanniksi, toiseksi eniten espanjaksi ja myös silloin tällöin ranskaksi ja italiaksi. Tältä sivulta löydät kootusti kaikki blogissa käsitellyt englanninkieliset kirjat. Arviot on kirjoitettu suomeksi, mutta keväästä 2024 alkaen olen alkanut lisätä niihin tiivistelmän englanniksi. Toivottavasti siitä on iloa niille sivukävijöille, jotka eksyvät kiinnostavan kirjan perässä tänne Suomen ulkopuolelta.

In addition to Finnish books and books translated into Finnish, I read a lot in other languages. Mostly in English, second most in Spanish and also occasionally in French and Italian. On this page you will find all the English-language books covered on the blog. The reviews are written in Finnish, but from spring 2024 onwards I have started to include a summary in English. I hope that it will be useful for those visitors who wander in from outside Finland in search of an interesting book.

Books in English

Kiran Desai: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

11/11/2025

”This is Sonia. She returned from America because it’s lonely,” said Babita.”It wasn’t simply loneliness,” said Sonia, understanding that this woman she did not know wanted to embarrass her. ”It was all the things…
Ian McEwan: What We Can Know

08/11/2025

The humanities are always in crisis. I no longer believe this is an institutional matter – it’s in the nature of intellectual life, or of thought itself. Thinking is always in crisis. But we…
Richard Osman: The Impossible Fortune

27/10/2025

Elizabeth stares at the photographs on her phone. A silver car, outside a very nice house. And something that shouldn’t be there. Then some close-ups. Some very convincing close-ups.’You believe me?’ Nick asks. ’I…
Frances Wilson: Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark

14/10/2025

Spark liked ’fun and games’ and had a genius for plots, in the sense of narrative sequences as well as secret scheming. She laid, and found, plots everywhere, and I have followed as best…
Maria Reva: Endling

16/09/2025

During Yeva’s first year working the romance tours, when bachelors asked about her day job and she was in a rare mood to divulge, she’d frame what she did as a rescue mission. She…
Margery Sharp: Lise Lillywhite

09/09/2025

One is not, or should not be, jealous, if one’s ikon attracts other worshippers: but the straws in this winter’s wind, which Lise herself gave no sign f having noticed, produced in Martin an…
Benjamin Wood: Seascraper

03/09/2025

The closer they get to Broughton, the more the sand dunes bunch together on the collar of the road. He’d wander out here as a lad, carefree, and tumble down the slopes for hours…
Tash Aw: The South

22/08/2025

We’d reached the foot of the low hill, and Chuan broke into a little jog, forging ahead of us and suddenly vanishing. He had dropped into a dip that had been cut into the…

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Kiran Desai: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

Ian McEwan: What We Can Know

Richard Osman: The Impossible Fortune

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark

Maria Reva: Endling

Margery Sharp: Lise Lillywhite

Benjamin Wood: Seascraper

Tash Aw: The South

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