Read 6 of 2023. The Possession by Annie Ernaux. Translated from the French by Anna Moschovakis
Jealousy. The rawness of this emotion perhaps cannot be compared to any other. It slices you open, and you lay bleeding – for all to see, because it is visible – that’s what this emotion ensures...
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Read 5 of 2023. Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel
Learning to Talk is a book that marvels, that makes you infer, come up with connections of your own to Mantel’s memoir. “Giving Up the Ghost”, and finally makes you marvel at how she connected t...
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Read 4 of 2023. Bliss Montage : Stories by Ling Ma
I hadn’t read “Severance” but then I decided to read this collection of short stories and will most certainly go and read her novel. The stories in this collection are surreal, fu…...
1 Year Ago
INTRODUCING THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHADOW PANEL!
It is that time of the year again! We read the longlist, the shortlist, and announce our winner. We, the shadow judge panel (yet again this year – the 9 of us, with one new addition), to read…...
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Read 3 of 2023. Age of Vice by Deepti Kapoor
Age of Vice is a book that doesn’t cut corners. It doesn’t hold back from saying what it wants to about the vast difference between the haves and the have-nots in the Indian society, and what happ...
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Read 2 of 2023. Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
For the longest time, I avoided “pandemic” literature. I did not want to read about the lockdown, about the Corona virus, about Covid-19, about lack of vaccines, of how people had to mi…...
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