Book Review: “Soul Mountain” by Gao Xingjian
More a survey of China than the exhausting search for the Self, what will remain is some of the most beautiful prose I’ve encountered.
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Book review: “Spies” by Marcel Beyer
A poet, Marcel Beyer’s prose lyrically paints what the children invent, since they cannot see the insides and outsides of the tragic love story that uncovers why they have dark eyes.
Read MoreBook review: Amitav Ghosh’s latest, ‘Gun Island’
The master does it again: but this time, it is not only a story of migration, it is a story of why and how there are migrations.
Read MoreBook review: “The Maze” by Panos Karnezis
More than its reviews, it was the novel’s setting just after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) — in which a remaining and lost Greek regiment wandered the deserts of Anatolia to find the sea — that sparked my curiosity to read Panos Karnezis’s, The Maze. Sebastian Faulk’s Birdsong and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Story are […]
Read MoreTwo sides of fiction, one road to empathy
His choice surprised me not only because both of us spend our time reading the Booker prize shortlists. I couldn’t imagine someone like him taking time out to read Harry Potter— which, I discovered, revealed much more about my prejudice than about his taste.
Read MoreBook Review: “War & Turpentine” by Stefan Hertsman
“I don’t like reading movies much” is how I often describe my rejection of contemporary literature that relies heavily on the surprising turns and twists of plot, because I’ve often found that the degree to which such stories are entertaining, they are bereft of the lyricism that invokes reflection and the lingering taste of beauty. […]
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