A Dozen Novels of Postponement

(alphabetically by author)

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost by Lan Samantha Chang
Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee
Zama by Antonio di Benedetto
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (along with many others—postponement seems to be one of his essential subjects)
The Natural by Bernard Malamud
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
A Reunion of Ghosts by Judith Claire Mitchell
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
The Evenings by Gerard Reve
Death at Intervals by José Saramago
Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

— December 5, 2020