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NEMESIS by Philip Roth

christine 2010 / Fiction / Reviews / The Americas / USA 12 April 2011 18 May 2020 Leave a comment

Philip Roth’s most recent novel, “Nemesis”, is set in Newark, New Jersey in the summer of 1944. Far away in Europe, the war is on, heading towards an Allied Victory, while back in the hot, exhausted suburb of Weequahic, a battle of an equally deadly nature is taking place. A …

HOME BOY by H.M.Naqvi

christine 2009 / Asia / Fiction / Reviews / Subcontinent / USA 23 February 2011 18 May 2020 Leave a comment

“Home Boy” is the powerful début novel by the young, talented Pakistani writer H.M.Naqvi. A picaresque novel of post 9/11 America, it is hard-hitting and shocking in its depiction of a land, a landscape and a people changed for ever. Three young Pakistani friends live in and around New York. …