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Author: Yasunari Kawabata
Translator: Edward G. Seidensticker
Publisher: Penguin UK
Publishing Date: 6 January 2011
Pages: 224
Languages: Japanese and English
Country: Japan
Rating: 4.5/5
“It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us”
I bought The Sound Of The Mountain in 2018 but never got around to reading it until...
Author: Yoko Ogawa
Publisher: Vintage
Publishing Date: 1 August 2020
Pages: 288
Language: Japanese and English
Translator: Stephen Snyder
Country: Japan
Rating: 4.5/5
“My memories don’t feel as though they’ve been pulled up by the root. Even if they fade, something remains. Like tiny seeds that might germinate again if the rain falls. And even if a memory disappears completely, the heart retains something. A slight tremor...
Editor: Aruni Kashyap
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Publishing Date: 25 February 2020
Pages: 248
Language: Assamese, Bodo and English
Country: India
Rating: 3.5/5
"The curtain is open and, in the open window, the moon is framed. Why does the sight of the solitary moon move Nirmala so? This might she feels a kinship with it that she has never felt before. They are two of a kind:...
Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
Publishing Date: 30 June 2020
Pages: 276
Language: English
Country: Mexico
Rating: 3.5/5
“It was the house that disfigured the land.”
I must confess I read Mexican Gothic purely because of it's cover. Yes, I judged a book by its cover! I am glad I did because this novel was a revelation in some ways. It introduced me to a...
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Publisher: Century
Publishing Date: 15 September 2020
Pages: 608
Language: English
Country: Greece/ England
Rating: 4.5/5
“Everything in life has a pattern and a coincidence is simply the moment when the pattern becomes briefly visible.”
I was extremely excited to get my hands on Anthony Horowitz's latest mystery Moonflower Murders. It's the sequel to Magpie Murders and features the literary detective and editor Susan...
Author: Arshia Sattar
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publishing Date: 5 October 2019
Language: English
Pages: 145
Country: India
Rating: 4/5
"A God who can forget his divinity in order to show us the enormously tragic consequences of our frailties is surely far more compelling than one who remains unreachable in his distant righteousness and perfection."
We, as Indians, have always considered Ramayana as a story of the victory of...
Author: John Zubrzycki
Publisher: Picador
Publishing Date: 30 January 2012
Language: English
Pages: 400
Country: India
I had an interest in reading The Last Nizam due to my connection with Hyderabad. If you are following me on Instagram you might have read a write-up on my grandfather joining the Marathwada Mukti Sangram. It was a protest to declare allegiance with India and to be free...
Author: Lucy Foley
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publishing Date: 15 February 2019
Pages: 400
Language: English
Country: Scotland
Rating: 4.5/5
“Some people, given just the right amount of pressure, taken out of their usual, comfortable environments, don’t need much encouragement at all to become monsters. And sometimes you just get a strong sense about people, and you can’t explain it; you simply know it, in some deeper part...
Author: Sophie Hannah
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publishing Date: 20 August 2020
Language: English
Pages: 352
Country: England
Rating: 3/5
Hercule Poirot is perhaps the world’s most beloved detective. Agatha Christie detested the eccentric Belgian detective but Poirot has a place of honour in the hearts of many readers. Sophie Hannah's Poirot novels make an interesting read although they are nowhere close to Christie's original ones. I...
Author: Vikram Seth and others
Publisher: Aleph Book Company
Publishing Date: 20 April 2019
Language: English
Pages: 152
Country: India
Rating: 3.5/5
Love and Lust: Stories and Essays is a part of Aleph Book Company's Olio series. The word 'Olio' means a miscellaneous collection of things. This series has books like Love and Lust, Notes from the Hinterland, In a Violent Land and The Essence of...