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Milkman: A Thrilling Narrative of Rebellion

Milkman by Anna Burns won the Booker Prize last year, so automatically, it went into my TBR list, and I ordered it as soon as it was available on Amazon. Once it came home, it sat unread in all its pink gloriousness on my bookshelf for the better part of six months. Why? I read…

Bring up the Bodies

I am on a roll right here. Two Man Booker prize-winning novels in a row. That usually never happens. Usually award-winning books are such powerful experiences, that I need to take a break to clean up my mind a bit. But Bring up the Bodies hardly feels like a Booker prize winner. It’s fast-paced, taut,…

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life, and the impossibility of love. Richard Flanagan’s story — of Dorrigo Evans, an Australian doctor haunted by a love affair with his uncle’s wife — journeys from the caves of Tasmanian trappers in the early twentieth century to a crumbling pre-war beachside hotel, from…

The Lowland

Growing up in Calcutta, born just fifteen months apart, Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead of them. It is the 1960s, and Udayan–charismatic and impulsive–finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and…

J

Set in the future – a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited – J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn’t know…

We Need New Names

I got this book back in October and I was really stoked to read it. Unfortunately, I stumbled on a few not-so-great reviews of the book, and put it aside to read at some other time. However, the cover was just so bright and appealing that I couldn’t postpone my reading of this book for…

A Tale for the Time Being

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great-grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she…