The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler: Brilliant, funny, sad and sensitive.
Macon Leary is a travel writer who hates both travel and anything out of the ordinary. He is grounded by loneliness and an unwillingness to compromise his creature comforts. Till he meets Muriel, a deliciously peculiar dog-obedience trainer who up-ends Macon’s insular worl. And thrusts […]
Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski: he brought everyone down to earth, even the angels.
In what is widely hailed as the best of his many novels, Charles Bukowski details the long, lonely years of his own youth in the raw voice of alter ego Henry Chinaski. From a harrowingly cheerless childhood in Germany through acne-riddled […]
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri: The Number One New York Times Bestseller.
These eight short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri are quiet, penetrating, and meticulously written. The first five stories are distinct, while the last three are interrelated. Lahiri’s prose seems so clean and precise that it is very easy to turn page after page. Each story […]
Che la festa cominci: l’irresistibile comicità di Niccolò Ammaniti sa cogliere i vizi e le poche virtú della nostra epoca.
Benvenuti al party del secolo. L’Italia fatta a pezzi in una festosa ed esclusiva Apocalisse.
Nel nuovo romanzo di Niccolò Ammaniti gli ultimi Cavalieri dell’Apocalisse fanno riunioni sataniste in una pizzeria di Oriolo Romano. Uno scrittore di […]
The Muse, by Jessie Burton: A picture hides thousand words.
On a hot July day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the stone steps of the Skelton gallery in London, knowing that her life is about to change forever. Having struggled to find her place in the city since she arrived from Trinidad five years ago, she […]
The Awakening by Kate Chopin: a story of female self-actualization back in the late 19th century.
The Awakening is a novel about a woman’s transformation. From an obedient, traditional wife and mother into a self-realized, sexually liberated and independent woman.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. […]
La Dernière des Stanfield: Un roman mené de main de maître. Magnifique et addictif!
Loin des histoires d’amour où les sentiments couvent en attendant de pouvoir librement s’exprimer, le dernier roman de Marc Leyv, «La Dernière des Stanfield» est une intrigue familiale plutôt complexe, mais intéressante.
Marc Levy se lance dans la saga familiale
Eleanor-Rigby est une jeune femme […]
New Boy: a modern retelling of Othello set in a suburban schoolyard.
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, a diplomat’s son, Osei Kokote, knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day. So he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student […]
Men without Women by Murakami : «one of the most influential novelist of his generation».
‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his observation to bear on the lives of […]
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman: one of the most essential short-story visionaries of our time.
The stories in «Honeydew» are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people. Of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth.
The characters are dazzling. Somalian women who have suffered circumcision, […]
