Baba Segi is a very lucky man. He has three wives and seven children. His family validate his need to show off his prosperity, his success and his virility. He is middle aged, plump and prosperous, with quite a high opinion of himself and his success as the family patriarch. But when he brings home a fourth wife, it seems his luck might not hold out.
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Rutu Modan's graphic novel is the story of Koby, a young man living in Tel-Aviv in 2002 whose life changes when his estranged father, Gabriel, disappears. Koby is approached by Numi, his father's lover, who believes that Gabriel has died in a suicide bombing. Koby is initially reluctant to get involved ….
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It has often been written that a good novel can take you on a journey. If that is the case, then One Hundred Bottles is a vivacious drunken stagger around 1990s Havana. It is a place of extraordinary energy combined with terrifying shadows, captured beautifully by Ena Lucía Portela, in her first book to be translated into English.
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Sarah Selecky's collection of short stories was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, Canada's top literary prize. The image on the book cover is of a broken plate: a particularly apt image for a collection in which characters are invariably fragile and the stories document the period before, during, or after their breakage.
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The most interesting aspect of this book is not that it is a romantic tale of two teenage girls who are lovers struggling to stay together despite huge class and wealth differences. Nor is it the choice of the family dog, Serafín, as a narrator for the events. What makes The Fish Child interesting is &hellip
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