Archive for September, 2007
The first book I’ve read by Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore, proved to be a very different read for me. Filled with what can be called magical realism (although that’s not doing it justice), Kafka On The Shore tells the story of a 15 year-old youth who runs away from home to avoid what [...]
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I just finished The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, and I must say, although I struggled with the novel at some points, the end of the book won me over. Peter Orner creates, through one to two page sections, an entire environment for the reader to enter. Set in Goas, a small school on a [...]
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress tells the story of one Chinese city-youth during the early seventies sent to the countryside for re-education. Living in the village at the top of a mountain called “The Phoenix of the Sky,” the city-youth soon discovers a hidden collection of Western books translated into [...]
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