Poles Apart
John Sutherland, 5 May 1983
Give us this day
by Janusz Glowacki, translated by Konrad Brodzinski.
Deutsch, 121 pp., £6.95, March 1983,0 233 97518 7 Show More
by Janusz Glowacki, translated by Konrad Brodzinski.
Deutsch, 121 pp., £6.95, March 1983,
In Search of Love and Beauty
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Murray, 227 pp., £8.50, April 1983,0 7195 4062 3 Show More
by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.
Murray, 227 pp., £8.50, April 1983,
Some prefer nettles
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 155 pp., £7.95, March 1983,0 436 51603 9 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 155 pp., £7.95, March 1983,
The Makioka Sisters
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 530 pp., £9.95, March 1983,0 330 28046 5 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Edward Seidensticker.
Secker, 530 pp., £9.95, March 1983,
‘The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi’ and ‘Arrowroot’
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony Chambers.
Secker, 199 pp., £7.95, March 1983,0 436 51602 0 Show More
by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony Chambers.
Secker, 199 pp., £7.95, March 1983,
“... Glowacki’s novel makes trouble for itself. The work is translated – one of the two ways in which, notoriously, a British book can be guaranteed to lose money (the other sure thing is poetry). Give us this day was originally published in 1981, and was evidently completed before December and Jaruzelski’s imposition of martial law ... ”
