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

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: A Spell of Good Things

06/03/2023

Ẹniọlá shrugged; he was grateful for the food he had just eaten. The quantity of food available for dinner varied from day to day because his parents were still trying to pay off the…
Kevin Barry: Night Boat to Tangier

24/02/2023

Maurice Hearn sits alone in the café bar at the ferry terminal. He turns the remains of a third brandy in its glass. You keep going any way you can. The motions of the…
Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers

22/02/2023

It went around the village quickly. No one really knew what to do or say. Still, Kit and Paddy were kept busy with the visitors those first few days. People climbed the lane up…
Michelle Gallen: Factory Girls

18/02/2023

Maeve had sandbags in her belly. When shit had happened before, she’d only had to share streets with the other side. But that morning she’d be sharing the air she breathed. And there was…
Caleb Azumah Nelson: Open Water

14/02/2023

You’ve been wondering about your own relationship to open water. You’ve been wondering about the trauma and how it always finds its way to the surface, floating in the ocean. You’ve been wondering about…
Elizabeth Taylor: The Soul of Kindness

12/02/2023

He was one of the various men Flora invited to the house whenever Meg was expected. She eagerly waited to hear Meg’s reactions, when next they met alone – sometimes in Meg’s lunch hour…
Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility

09/02/2023

”–and my point is, there’s always something. I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want…
Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead

05/02/2023

What’s an oxy, I’d asked. That November it was still a shiny new thing. OxyContin, God’s gift for the laid-off deep-hole man with his back and neck bones grinding like bags of gravel. For…

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Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀: A Spell of Good Things

Kevin Barry: Night Boat to Tangier

Donal Ryan: Strange Flowers

Michelle Gallen: Factory Girls

Caleb Azumah Nelson: Open Water

Elizabeth Taylor: The Soul of Kindness

Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility

Barbara Kingsolver: Demon Copperhead

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