When I turned the last page, after (I think) the 3rd time of reading this book, it was with the same sense of regret. I could read Mr. Murakami’s gentle unassuming words for ever. He sounds so nice and reassuring and thoughtful. The kind of person I’d love to run …
A second reading of this book was most definitely called for, after seeing the trailer for the film of the same name. (The film is yet to be seen, though I’m saddened by the lukewarm reviews it got). I’d read the book almost immediately after it was published in 2008 …
In “The Girl of his dreams”, the 17th in the wonderful Commissario Brunetti series, we once again are privileged to witness the author Donna Leon on top form. Every single book in the series is excellent. Each book, and they are all stand-alone books by the way, is a love-song …
What a pleasure to re-read a book after some 8 years and find it every bit as entertaining. My Delhi book club was bang on trend when we read this book in late 2008, and I thoroughly enjoyed it at the time. We all did, I seem to remember. In the …
A couple of years ago I read and reviewed the first novel by Keigo Higashino, “The Devotion of Suspect X” which I loved. Actually let me clarify that statement – this was the author’s first novel translated into English and I read the translation. Comparisons are odious, I think the …
This slim book, winner of the Prix Goncourt, and translated from French by Polly McLean, is extraordinary on every level. It is poetic, lyrical, moving, crude, tragic, sometimes funny in an earthy way, and absolutely engrossing. The plot is simple, the action confined to one room, the characters very few, …
Have you ever had That Moment when you see a book and say, “Oh, this sounds good. Who is this author? Never heard of him/her,” and everyone else in the room stares at you as though you were from the dark ages? I had one of these moments a couple …
What does one do, as a mere reader, when a book so profoundly shakes you up, frightens you even ? Review it, in the fervent hope that more people will thereby read it. It’s not much of a contribution to one of India’s most alarming social problems, but if one …
