A novel that tackles fraught questions of identity, dislocation and loneliness through the life of an Ethiopian émigré in the US has taken this year’s Guardian First Book Award.
05/12/2007
Film on Wednesday: Vittorio De Sica – Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Ladri di biciclette is a 1948 Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was released as The Bicycle Thief in the USA and as Bicycle Thieves in the UK.
The film is frequently on critics’ and directors’ lists of the best films ever made. It was given an honorary Academy Award in 1949, and, [...]
05/12/2007
War and Peace
Steve Donoghue on Richard Pevear’s and Larissa Volokhonsky’s translation of Tolstoy’s War and Peace here.
