Book Review: ‘A Golden Age’ by Tahmima Anam
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780143418115 Pages: 315 Price: INR 245 Tahmima Anam’s debut novel is a stunning start to the trilogy set against the backdrop of the Bangladesh Liberation War and its aftermath which takes you on a harrowing yet breathtaking journey of a family torn apart by the hunger of war. With its...
Book Review: ‘Moth Smoke’ by Mohsin Hamid
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN 9780140297041 Price: INR 269 Pages: 307 Most of us have heard of author Mohsin Hamid’s largely successful novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, having being made into a stunning film last year as well as having sold more than a million copies and being shortlisted for the Man Booker prize after its...
Book Review: ‘Room’ by Emma Donoghue
Language: English Format: Paperback ISBN: 9780330519021 Pages: 321 Price: INR 301 Often we come across work that makes us pause and think, sometimes even giving us that desperately needed odd ray of hope, but rarely do we find something that moves us to actual tears. ‘Room’ is one such novel. Narrated by five year old...
Book Review: ‘Aftertaste’ by Namita Devidayal
Language: English Format: Paperback Pages: 292 Price: INR 199 Namita Devidayal’s second book after her debut novel ‘The Music Room‘ has been on my To Read list for a long time so when I finally got my hands on it, I was quite quote disappointed by the outcome. It appears as if Devidayal hurries to...
Book Review: ‘City of the Beasts’ by Isabel Allende
Language: English Format: Paperback Publisher: Hutchinson 2013 ISBN: 9780060535032 Pages: 460 Price: INR 406 Fifteen year old Alexander Cold has grown up in a sweet little quiet town in California with his parents and younger sisters. His life has been that of a normal teenager but when his mother falls sick with cancer, Alex is...
Book Review: ‘Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging’ by Lousie Rennison
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780007274673 Price: 269 INR There are six things very wrong with my life: 1. I have one of those under-the-skin spots that will never come to a head but lurk in a red way for the next two years. 2. It is on my nose. 3. I have a three-year-old...
Book Review: ‘The Almond’ by Nedjma (C. Jane Hunter)
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0552772844 Pages: 260 Price: 590 INR Written by a North African Muslim woman under the pseudonym ‘Nedjma’, ‘The Almond‘ is testimony to the sexual lives of women in a society that is ostensibly puritanical to the world. It is the alluring story of how a Muslim woman lost and then...
Book Review: ‘Peter Pan’ by J. M. Barrie
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 8175643021 Price: 60 INR There are some books that are understandably stand the test of time and Scottish playwright J. M. Barrie’s classic ‘Peter Pan‘ is one of them. Like many, I read this classic only after watching the 2003 film ‘Finding Neverland‘ which told of Barrie’s journey of creating...
Book Review: ‘Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson
When Steve Jobs appointed Walter Isaacson, chairman of CNN and managing editor of Time magazine, to write his biography he must’ve felt the indelible intuition for a successful product that he was so akin to, and Isaacson definitely did not fail to deliver. It seems only fitting that Jobs is the subject of his fourth biography after...
Book Review: ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ by Audrey Niffenegger
Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 9780099546184 Pages: 615 Price: 350 INR I remember first picking up this book from my brother’s bookshelf when I was thirteen and flipping hurriedly through the first few chapters only to deem it as ‘tedious’ and the ‘stuff of old men’. Much older, I picked up Audrey Niffenegger’s the Time Traveler’s Wife...