Category: book review
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Book Review of Kiran Desai’s ‘The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’
I never read past the second chapter of Kiran Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss. So when I stumbled upon her story “An Unashamed Proposal” in New Yorker magazine, I was…
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The Fragmented Self: Notes from Fernando Pessoa’s The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa’s magnum opus, The Book of Disquiet (Livro do Desassossego), is, in its amorphous form, a diary, a novel, and an artefact of fragmentation. The poet himself called it…
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Review of Aditi Dasgupta’s ‘Language Has No Homeland’
Aditi Dasgupta’s Language Has No Homeland is not merely a collection of poems – it is a multilingual act of remembering, resisting, and returning. It is remarkable for how it…
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Review of Anita Desai’s ‘In Custody’
I read Anita Desai‘s In Custody (published in 1984) back in 2019. It wasn’t an accidental read; it was one of the books to be read for our post-graduation under…
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Review of Arundhati Roy’s ‘The God of Small Things’
SUBMISSION OPEN for Fiction Writing Contest. Win Cash Prizes and Dual Publication with The Hemlock Journal and Remington Review. Click Here to Know More. “Where do old birds go to die? Why don’t dead ones fall like stones from…
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Review of Paulo Coelho’s ‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’
‘By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept’ was so close to my heart. Every time I gathered the courage to read a few pages, I found myself breathing…
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Review of Asha Ponnachan’s ‘Airport Stories’
In her book Airport Stories, Asha Ponnachan turns the familiar chaos of airports into a quiet theatre of hidden lives, often not explored by passengers or the outside world. Each…
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Reading Banu Mushtaq’s ‘Heart Lamp’ – A review by Thamanna T.
Even now, evening chai conversations at home are reserved exclusively for my mother. As she restlessly forages through the stories of hardships about marriages and dreadful pregnancies (she became a…
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Book Review of John Muro’s ‘A Bountiful Silence’
The Art of Stillness: John Muro’s A Bountiful Silence & Other Poems John Muro’s A Bountiful Silence & Other Poems is a study in precision, patience, and perception. Across three…
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Entangled History in Elif Shafak’s ‘The Bastard of Istanbul’ : A review by Thamanna T.
Besides Haruki Murakami and Orhan Pamuk, Elif Shafak remains one of those remarkable writers triumphing in evoking a strong sense of yearning for the restless but quiet narratives of the…
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