Book: After Dark Author: Haruki Murakami Publication: RHUK (5 June 2008) Pages: 208 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: Norwegian Wood cannot provide me with the satisfaction that I expect from Haruki Murakami (born in on1949, Kyoto, Japan). I feel desperate to taste more of his intoxicating language. So, I grab After Dark. […]
Book: The Picture of Dorian Gray Author: Oscar Wilde Publication: Fingerprint Pages: 256 Price: Click the link Introduction: I\’m not sure if it is a book on art or on character or on an everlasting conflict between human vices and virtues or the pamphlet of the movement art for art\’s sake. The Picture of Dorian
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Macabre Thriller, SatireBook: The Grass is Singing Author: Doris Lessing Publication: Fourth Estate; New edition (1 March 2013) Pages: 208 Price: Click the link Introduction: The Grass is Singing by Doris Lessing is set at the backdrop of Southern Rhodesia, South Africa torn up in racial Politics of White V/S Black Though there was no mystery in
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Social IssuesBook: Fahrenheit 451 Author: Ray Bradbury Publication: Harper Voyager; New Ed edition (4 August 2008) Pages: 192 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a great classic novel for all readers. \”I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver\’s Travels!
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Satire, Social IssuesBook: Train to Pakistan Author: Khushwant Singh Publication: Penguin; 1st edition (2 February 2016); Penguin India Pages: 192 Price: Click the link Backdrop: Set up in the historical background of partition in 1947 Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh is a masterpiece of literature. The unresolved massacre and bloodshed is documented very emphatically yet cogent
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Macabre Thriller, Social IssuesBook: The Great Gatsby Author: F Scott Fitzgerald Publication: Fingerprint! Publishing; First edition (1 January 2014) Pages: 224 Price: Click the link Introduction: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!” The novel
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Love Story, Social IssuesBook: Poonachi Author: Perumal Murugan Publication: Context Pages: 184 Price: Click the link Review Rate: 5 Introduction: \”How long can an untold story rest in deep slumber within the dormant seed? I am fearful of writing about humans; … Let me write about animals.\” Perumal Murugan is a celebrated name in Tamil Literature. His every
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Satire, Social IssuesBook: The Thousand Faces of Night Author: Githa Hariharan Publication: Penguin India Pages: 144 Price: Click the link Introduction: \”Her hand seemed to turn me away from the indecisive confusion of my last months in Amery; she seemed to have silently articulated the pattern she had perceived in the jigsaw puzzle that confronted me.”
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Book Review, Classic Novels, Social IssuesBook: The Bear and the Nightingale Author: Katherine Arden Publication: Random House UK Pages: 464 Price: Click the link Author: She is the fantasy creator, mystery maker. Katherine Arden, born in 1987 is an American novelist, applauded for her Winternight trilogy. The Bear and the Nightingale is the first among these trilogies. Introduction: When I
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The Forgotten Daughter By Renita D\’Silva Publication: Fingerprint! Publication Pages: 276 Price: Click the link Introduction: The novels of Renita D’Silva, a British Indian author, with their exquisite settings, vivid portrayal of human lives fraught with conflict and crisis, aligned at a perfect natural background of both rural and metropolitan is always worth reading. The
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