Grandma Non-Oui Allison McVetyGrandma Non Oui is a biographical novel that tells the life story of a woman from Split, Croatia. In her youth, Grandma Nedjeljkaor Non Oui, as she goes by the nickname given to her by her French teacher (a literal French translation of the syllables of her nickname Ne Da, Slavic for No Yes)falls in love with an Italian soldier, Carlo, at the end of the second World War and later moves to Sicily to marry him. Written as an exchange between Grandma and
1960 in Barnaul
Wyeth conjures a seeking consciousness from the restless ‘blanks’ of our lives
Weekendavisen “The language draws the reader into a floating dream-like state that makes the reading experience disturbingly beautiful
and at the same time [forceful]
sometimes self-cancelling
Thirteen-year-old Juan's summer is off to a terrible start
the quiet unstated violence in our lives
chapters from Hamdy el-Gazzar’s novel Sehrun Aswad [Black Magic]
fantasy and science fiction
it follows their speech patterns: cockney and Caribbean unite
'Redressing the balance of English poetry' – Poetry Review
This is the first detailed study of the man and his work
