Hindustan Times
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Emma Donoghue’s Room must surely be one of the best novels of 2010. Its narrator is a five-year-old boy. His mother was kidnapped and thrown into a backyard dungeon when she was 19. Read more
(3 votes, average: 4.67 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 27, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged chronicles, dungeon, Emma Donoghue, hindustan times, Man Booker Prize, news, passionate love, readjustment, rehabilitation, Room
Gary Shteyngart is nothing less than a sensation in the world of contemporary American literature. At 39, he has just published his third novel, Super Sad True Love Story, his second – the bestselling Absurdistan – having already made him into a household name. Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 20, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Filed under Books, Page Turner · Tagged 1984, Absurdistan, Gary Shteyngart, George Orwell, hindustan times, Jay McInerney, Lenny Abramov, New Yorker, news, Super Sad True Love Story, surveillance, terror
I was first alerted to Patrick Hamilton’s dark, unsettling novel, Hangover Square (first published in 1941), by a piece Nick Hornby wrote (the piece was later part of the collection of his columns published as The Complete Polysyllabic Spree). Read more
(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, September 6, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged Fever Pitch, Hangover Square, JB Priestley, Keith Waterhouse, London, Nick Hornby, Our Song, Patrick Hamilton, Penguin Modern Classics, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, World War II
