Posted in Book Guide, Fiction on 24. Jun, 2010
George and Sabine Harwood are the latest European exports to arrive in a country which is trying to shake itself free from its colonial past. They are unwanted. Sabine instantly acknowledges the foreignness of this new land, Trinidad, and its huge cultural weight pressing down on her.
Posted in Book Guide, Fiction on 02. Jun, 2010
Short-listed for the Orange Prize in April, award-winning novelist Lorrie Moore has managed to shock readers and entice her critics with her third novel, A Gate at the Stairs. The novel follows the story of a young child-minder in America aged by tragedy.
Posted in Book Guide, Fiction on 25. May, 2010
The India of The White Tiger is not some exotic mystery which baffles and bedazzles the West. In one sense, it is not even addressed to Westerners. Rather, the character Munna, who later goes by Balram Halwai, the white tiger and eventually, a far more disturbing name, tells the story of his life and of [...]
Posted in Book Guide, Fiction on 14. May, 2010
Burnt Shadows plunges the reader into a vibrant world of colour and culture, depicting an unspoiled country of blue skies, purple notebooks hidden in trees, and blossoming love, pure in its fragility – only to snatch these fleeting pages of peace from the reader’s grasp and in an instant, dissolve all colour and life. Everything [...]
Posted in Book Guide, Coffee Table on 06. May, 2010
You see, it’s become a manual of sorts amongst me and my lot. We are often heard muttering, “I wonder what The Thrift Book says about that.” And it touches so many sections of life from supermarket shopping to the joys of swapping clothes online to holidaying in a yurt. You learn that olive oil is a magical substance, which does everything imaginable.
Posted in Book Guide, Fiction on 03. May, 2010
Written as a letter to Osama, Incendiary
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