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

Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad

27/08/2017

The train lurched into the tunnel. Northward. The engineer yelled, ”All aboard! The boy was simple, Cora decided, responsibilities of his office notwithstanding. She looked back. Her underground prison waned as the darkness reclaimed…
Victoria Hislop: Cartes Postales from Greece

23/08/2017

On my own journey, I occasionally arrived in a place that was a quintessential carte postale – and yet there was something not quite right about it, something that made me dislike it, a…
Nadeem Aslam: The Golden Legend

02/07/2017

She turned and walked back into the house, shedding her shoes as she crossed the grass, wishing there were dewdrops against the soles of her feet, thinking of Massud who had loved that sensation.…
Madeleine Thien: Dogs at the Perimeter

11/06/2017

I remember the stories my mother used to tell me, stories that had been handed down by her own grandmother’s grandmother, who had married a merchant and travelled from the villages outside of Battambang.…
Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus

08/06/2017

I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. To visit the circus again, if only…
Madeleine Thien: Do Not Say We Have Nothing

29/05/2017

”I assumed,” Ai-ming told me, ”that when Big Mother’s stories finished, life would continue and I would go back to being myself. But it wasn’t true. The stories got longer and longer, and I…
Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You

13/02/2017

Later, when they look back on this last evening, the family will remember almost nothing. So many things will be pared away by the sadness to come. Nath, flushed with excitement, chattered through dinner,…
Trilleritiistai: The Fire Child & Hyvä naapuri

27/12/2016

Joulun lukutahti on ollut niin jäätävä, ettei kirjoitustahti meinaa pysyä tasoissa millään. Taas täytyy vähän niputtaa, niinpä nimeän tämän tiistain trilleritiistaiksi ja tiivistän tunnelmani kahdesta kiinnostavasta psykologisesta trilleristä. Shari Lapenan Hyvä naapuri julkaistaan tammikuun ensimmäisellä viikolla,…

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Colson Whitehead: The Underground Railroad

Victoria Hislop: Cartes Postales from Greece

Nadeem Aslam: The Golden Legend

Madeleine Thien: Dogs at the Perimeter

Erin Morgenstern: The Night Circus

Madeleine Thien: Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Celeste Ng: Everything I Never Told You

Trilleritiistai: The Fire Child & Hyvä naapuri

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