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

Muriel Spark: The Driver’s Seat

02/02/2023

She will be found tomorrow morning dead from multiple stab-wounds, her wrists bound with a silk scarf and her ankles bound with a man’s necktie, in the grounds of an empty villa, in a…
Iris Murdoch: The Time of the Angels

29/01/2023

”The disappearance of God does not simply leave a void into which human reason can move. The death of God has set the angels free. And they are terrible.””The angels––?””There are principalities and powers.…
Penelope Fitzgerald: Human Voices

26/01/2023

Broadcasting House was in fact dedicated to the strangest project of the war, or of any war, that is, telling the truth. Without prompting, the BBC had decided that truth was more important than…
Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

21/01/2023

Maybe it’s not, in the end, the virtues of others that so wrenches our hearts as it is the sense of almost unbearably poignant recognition when we see them at their most base, in…
A. S. Byatt: Possession

16/01/2023

There are readings—of the same text—that are dutiful, readings that map and dissect, readings that hear a rustling of unheard sounds, that count grey little pronouns for pleasure or instruction and for a time…
Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

26/12/2022

You were born before Elvis had his first hit. And died before Freddie had his last. In the interim, you have shot thousands. You have photos of the government Minister who looked on while…
Jo Browning Wroe: A Terrible Kindness

22/12/2022

Once they reach the cast iron lamppost in the middle of the common, William turns to Martin. ’You’re disgusted with me for leaving Gloria, aren’t you?’ ’Not disgusted.’ Martin looks straight ahead. ’It just…
Ian McEwan: Lessons

09/12/2022

He had never contemplated his own death. He was certain that the usual associations – dark, cold, silent, decay – were irrelevant. These could all be felt and understood. Death lay on the far…

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Muriel Spark: The Driver’s Seat

Iris Murdoch: The Time of the Angels

Penelope Fitzgerald: Human Voices

Michael Cunningham: By Nightfall

A. S. Byatt: Possession

Shehan Karunatilaka: The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Jo Browning Wroe: A Terrible Kindness

Ian McEwan: Lessons

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