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What Am I ReadingWhat Am I ReadingQuality book reviews, critiques and insights into the world of literature, both classic and contemporary.
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East West by Salman Rushdie
2007-11-12 07:10:00 East West is a short story collection. The nine tales are grouped in three, by the flavour of their origins, the third being the mixed one of book’s title. That also happened to be the one I liked the most, with ?The Courter? beating the ... More About: Book Reviews , East , Authors , Salman
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
2007-11-05 05:44:00 The book is a close examination of Mrs. Dalloway, a wealthy London socialite widely admired for her grace and finesse in social circles, and Peter Walsh, her unrequited lover who has just returned from his lacklustre stint in India. Parallely, the book also portrays Septimus Warren Smith, a young war hero ... More About: Virginia , Virginia Woolf , Allo
Shame by Salman Rushdie
2007-10-22 06:26:00 Though the characters and events are cast in a fable like fashion, ?Shame ? is clearly a portrayal of post independence Pakistan, with some of its main characters replicating prominent political figures in real life, albeit loosely. Iskander (notice the wordplay: an interchange of the first two alphabets producing a name that means king) ... More About: Book Reviews , Salman , Salman Rushdie 1, 2 |
