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 … Continue reading Book Review: The Body Myth
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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 … Continue reading Book Review: The Carpet Weaver
Book Review: The Man Who Saw Everything
Title: The Man Who Saw Everything Author: Deborah Levy Publisher: Hamish Hamilton- Penguin Random House Pages: 200 ISBN: 978-0241268025 Source: Publisher The Man Who Saw Everything presents an immersive and surreal story of Saul Adler- a young historian. The novel spans a period of roughly 30 years. It opens on a September day in 1988 … Continue reading Book Review: The Man Who Saw Everything
Book Review: The Fourth Courier
Title: The Fourth Courier Author: Timothy Jay Smith Publisher: Arcade Publishing Pages: 300 ISBN: 978-1948924108 Source: Author The Fourth Courier is a thriller set in Poland. The novel is a concoction of murder, politics, liaisons (both heterosexual and homosexual), nuclear threat and power hungry creatures. The chief characters involve a FBI agent, a gay black … Continue reading Book Review: The Fourth Courier
Book Review: You will be Safe here
Title: You will be Safe here Author: Damian Barr Publisher: Bloomsbury Pages: 346 ISBN: 978-1526608734 Source: Publsiher You will be Safe here tells two stirring and connected stories spanning over a century. Set in South Africa and told in three parts, the events in the novel take place in 1901 during the second Boer War … Continue reading Book Review: You will be Safe here
Book Review: Straight to Normal
Title: Straight to Normal Author: Sharif D. Ragnekar Publisher: Rupa Publications Pages: 224 ISBN: 978-9353333669 Source: Publisher For the sake of labels and classification, this book is an autobiography of a gay man. But this won't suffice because of the sheer power that this book carries. It a lucid rendition of what it means to … Continue reading Book Review: Straight to Normal
Book Review: Under the Udala Trees
Title: Under the Udala Trees Author: Chinelo Okparanta Publisher: Granta Pages:328 ISBN: 9781847088383 Source: Publisher 'Under the Udala Trees' is the story of Ijeoma, a young Nigerian girl, who discovers love in a girl of some other community, Amina. The novel takes us on a journey wherein Ijeoma tries to reconcile with her life, after … Continue reading Book Review: Under the Udala Trees
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