Faber & Faber

Book Reviews

• *Amongst Women (John McGahern)
  - an Irish novel of a family and its frictions
• *Beowulf (Seamus Heaney)
  - an effective verse translation
• Bridge in the Menagerie (Victor Mollo)
  The Winning Ways of the Hideous Hog
• **Conversation in the Cathedral (Mario Vargas Llosa)
  - a novel about power and politics in Peru in the early 1950s
• *English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
  - a comic novel about working for the Indian government
• Hammerklavier (Yasmina Reza)
  - a pointillist rumination on music, mortality and memory
• *The Last Burden (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
  - a merciless dissection of an Indian family
• *Moscow Stations (Venedikt Yerofeev)
  - a tragi-comic existentialist masterpiece
• *My Name is Red (Orhan Pamuk)
  - murder and art in 16th century Istanbul
• Promiscuity (Tim Birkhead)
  An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition and Sexual Conflict
• *Red Plenty (Francis Spufford)
  Inside the Fifties' Soviet Dream
• Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
  - an novel about a coup in a provincial Turkish town
• *101 Sonnets (Don Paterson)
  From Shakespeare to Heaney
• Talking about Detective Fiction (P.D. James)
  - a brief history and overview of the genre
• *Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Apostolos Doxiadis)
  - a novel of obsession and mathematics