Book Review: ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel
ISBN: 9780143028482 Language: English Binding: Paperback Pages: 336 Awards: The Man Booker Prize Winner ‘Life of Pi’ by Yann Martel claims that it will turn you into a believer of the Almighty. With a young boy stranded at sea with a Bengal Tiger on board, the book can swing from wonderfully good to horribly bad. Thankfully for...
Book Review: ‘The Bolt of Lightning’ by Satyen Nabar
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9789380576779 Price: INR 125 Pages: 242 Literati please turn away now- this one’s for the masses not the classes. ‘The Bolt of Lightning‘ by Satyen Nabar delves into the intricacies of “Mid-Life Crisis” and pertinent issues surrounding it. The author takes off with a run-off-the-mill plot only to give a...
Book Review: ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’ by Mohsin Hamid
Language: English Price: INR 250 ISBN: 9780143064244 Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America… ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist‘ is the story of a Pakistani man named Changez. Throughout the book, a short one at...
Book Review: ‘The Suicide Banker’ by Puneet Gupta
Language: English Pages: 279 ISBN: 8129117894 Price: INR 195 ‘Suicidal Banker‘ by Puneet Gupta has a Statutory Warning quite aptly printed at the top of the back cover page, that reads, This Novel could inspire more fraudsters than financiers! A compulsory reading for unscrupulous borrowers who don’t want to repay their bank loans! When you...
Book(s) Review/Discussion: Isaac Asimov’s Caliban Trilogy by Roger McBride Allen
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780441090792(Isaac Asimov’s Caliban) ISBN: 9783404242184(Isaac Asimov’s Inferno) ISBN: 9780441004713(Isaac Asimov’s Utopia) Science fiction, at its heart, is one of the easiest and the most difficult genres to write for. Easiest because you have complete freedom with what you want to create, as long as what you create can be fathomed...
Book Review: ‘Solo’ by Rana Dasgupta
Price: INR 395 Pages: 357 Language: English ISBN: 0007182147 Solo by British-Indian writer Rana Dasgupta is one-of-a-kind, and worth every prize that it has been awarded (including the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize). The book is divided into two parts, into two novellas – almost called “Dreams” and “Day-dreams” respectively. The first part follows the seemingly pitiable...
