Reading and Watching the World: Books, Film and Art
There's a whole world out there! I'm an experienced, UK-based editor and a bit of an aesthetic dilettante. I'm making it my off-duty duty to bring to your attention books, films, artists, music and TV from all over the world. Reviews are SPOILER FREE. New posts every week. See Reviews by country for my reviews from each nation.
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA I’m a bit behind with my reading plans, as I’ve unexpectedly been doing a lot of extra hours at work after someone left. Until their replacement starts, I’ve been handed all their authors and their workload to deal with, along with my own, although the end does seem to be in sight, even …
Continue reading “The Book of Memory by Petina Gappah (Zimbabwe)”
review by Imogen G. I read this book for #1976 month, hosted by Karen at Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings and Simon at Stuck in a Book. This is a bi-annual week celebrating books published in a particular year, and I’ve intended to participate before but never been organized enough, especially as work is always frantic in …
A James Tait Black-shortlsted collection of Syrian-born writer Dima Alzayat
Modern classic of African literature, Nervous Conditions
Jenny Erpenbeck’s story of an East German house over the course of the 20th century
An often acerbic dystopian novel by US author Lydia Millet
Harrowing masterpiece, recording the wartime memories of those who grew up during the Second World War in Belarus
A story of politics, violence, love and betrayal set in north-western Pakistan
One of Anne Tyler’s most-loved novels
Review no 162 Book 5 of my #20booksofsummer The God of Small Things is one of those books that everyone reading this will have heard of, but I don’t suppose everyone will have read. It won the Booker Prize in 1997 and rapidly became the biggest-selling work of Indian fiction by a non-expat writer. Arundhati …
Continue reading “The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)”
