Book Review: Ways of Dying

The latest edition from the Aleph Olio series, Ways of Dying brings together essays and short stories on the theme of death. The anthology as a whole comes across as a collection of different portraits of death, each made from a different angle. The motif that runs throughout the collection is that death is the …

Book Review: How The World Thinks

Title: How The World Thinks- A Global History of Philosophy Author: Julian Baggini Publisher: Granta Books Pages: 342 ISBN: 978-1783782307 Source: Publisher In How The World Thinks the author Julian Baggini takes the reader along to dive into the cultures of different places and provide a glimpse of how people across the globe live their …

Book Review: The Angel’s Beauty Spots

Title: The Angel's Beauty Spots Author: K.R. Meera Translator: J. Devika Publisher: Aleph Book Company Pages: 120 ISBN: 978-9388292832 Source: Publisher The Angel's Beauty Spots is a collection of three novellas by K.R. Meera on the theme of love. 'The Angel’s Beauty Spots' is a disquieting story about Angela’s repeated infidelities and the trauma of …

Book Review: Quichotte

Title: Quichotte Author: Salman Rushdie Publisher: Hamish Hamilton- Penguin Pages: 390 ISBN: 978-0670092796 Source: Publisher Salman Rushdie's Quichotte is an account of a postmodern man standing at the brink of the collapse of civilization staring at his own reflection. The man is the author Sam DuChamp and his reflection is the character that he creates, …

Book Review: The Case of the Wandering Scholar

Title: The Case of the Wandering Scholar Author: Kate Saunders Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 362 ISBN: 978-1526615985 Source: Publisher The Case of the Wandering Scholar is a Laetitia Rodd mystery involving the search a nomadic Oxford scholar tied with a series of murders and suspects who seem completely unrelated to each other. Set in mid 19th …

Book Review: If History has taught us anything

Title: If History has taught us anything Author: Farhat Nasreen Publisher: Rupa Publications Pages: 208 ISBN: 978-9353334789 Source: Publisher If History has taught us anything undertakes a journey into the political history of India. India has seen several rulers and each of these rules has impacted and shaped the India of the present. If one …

Book Review: The German House

Title: The German House Author: Annette Hess Translator: Elisabeth Lauffer Publisher: Harper Via- Harper Collins Pages: 330 ISBN: 978-0062976451 Source: Publisher The German House is set in post war Germany. Poeple have settled in their lives once again and the WW II is but a hazy memory for the present generation. Beautiful young Eva is …

Book Review: The Body Myth

Title: The Body Myth Author: Rheea Mukherjee Publisher: Hamish Hamilton- Penguin Pages: 232 ISBN: 978-0670092789 Source: Publisher The Body Myth is a powerful debut novel that talks about many things at once. It can be best described as a novel that brings together the acceptable and the non-acceptable, the normal and the abnormal, the knowable …

Book Review: The Carpet Weaver

Title: The Carpet Weaver Author: Nemat Sadat Publisher: Penguin Viking Pages: 300 ISBN: 978-0670092048 Source: Publisher Spanning over 7 years and moving from Afghanistan through Pakistan to America, The Carpet Weaver is a coming of age story of a young Afghan Boy, Kanishka as he confronts his sexuality and the world around. At the age …

Book Review: The Man That Got Away

Title: The Man That Got Away Author: Lynne Truss Publisher: Raven Books- Bloomsbury Pages: 290 ISBN: 978-1408899724 Source: Publisher The Man That Got Away is an amusing crime thriller featuring the very delightful Constable Twitten. Set in Brighton in 1957, this is a work with a very intricately woven plot that keeps one engrossed till …