Indian Winter Jean Boase-BeierIndian Winter begins with a narrator trying to write about a long ago lover whose death he has just learned of. While on this journey into memory, he flees his current faltering relationship in search of new friendships and intimacies. Inspired by Antonio Tabucchi's Indian Nocturne, and by the writings of Anas Nin, Rachel Cusk, and Carole Maso, among others, Indian Winter finds itself where the travel diary, the knstlerroman, poetry, and autofiction
[set against]the resistible rise of Nazi thuggery
Will the voices of the dead rise to meet the living
I was induced to write unambitious critical pieces in German
repetitions draw the reader to join and lend their voice to the work
childhood orbits the voice of a distant and sometimes dangerous parent
100neHundred
pithy and eloquent
It’s a book about art and love
Following the multi-award-winning What I Learned From Johnny Bevan
whether by cinema or live music
Sandra Hoffmann’s Paula is a moving piece of autofiction about the writer’s relationship to her grandmother
edited by Roddy Lumsden (2010)