Category: FICTION

April 30, 2010

Suite Francaise by Irene Nemorovsky ** (of 4)

According to the NY Times, this stunning book contains two narratives, one fiction and the other a fragmentary, factual account of how the fiction came...

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April 30, 2010

The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth * (of 4)

Winner of the Booker Prize totally boring Midrash of the Iliad. I couldn’t finish it.

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April 29, 2010

Snow by Orhan Pamuk ** (of 4)

Ostensibly there is a plot based on the return of a Turkish exile to his small eastern hometown where the national debate about the politicization...

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April 29, 2010

Small Island by Andrea Levy **** (of 4)

There’s a reason this book won the Whitbread Award for best book of the year, one of Britain’s most prestigious literary awards. It captures the...

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April 29, 2010

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut ** (of 4)

As a twenty year old soldier Vonnegut was one of the few people to survive the allied bombing of Dresden in World War II. For...

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April 29, 2010

The Secret River by Kate Granville *** (of 4)

The British caste system of the 18th century was unendurable for average citizens and petty crime was often a necessity. Read Dickens, for example. In...

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April 29, 2010

Saturday by Ian McEwan ** (of 4)

Both of my parents, and the critics, raved about this book, so take my review cautiously. The story revolves around the meticulously described single day...

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April 29, 2010

Red Sea by Emily Benedek *** (of 4)

A well-researched post 9/11 thriller with Middle Eastern jihadists sending dirty nuclear bombs toward American ports while being hunted down by an Israeli secret agent,...

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April 29, 2010