The language of threads, a sequel to The women of Silk is the story of Pei, a Chinese woman that escaped to Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked China during World War II. Much like its prequel, the tone of this book is – gentle, quiet and yet intense. This is the second book...
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The Kite Runner is an exceptional first novel by Khaled Hosseini. The single thread that runs thru the entire book is the story of the friendship between Amir and Hassan. As the first few pages unfold, you see that there are multiple layers of this friendship – of friends, of master and servant, of...
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Arthur comes to terms with his bereavement... He is bereft of the earth! He also comes to terms with his recent feelings of affection towards Tricia MacMillan!
Have you read h2g2? If you don't know what I am talking about, you probably haven't or in the late Douglas Adam's words: "It is a mistake to...
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More than 7 decades ago, this book won the Pulitzer Prize and then, helped Pearl S Buck win the Nobel Prize. The Good Earth reads like a song of the war, of china, of farmers (not peasants), of women and men, of marriage, of poverty and riches and, of birth and death. This, in...
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Gail Tsukiyama’s first novel, Women of the Silk deserves all those praises. It is a moving, quiet and yet intense coming-of-age novel of a young Chinese woman, who is sold to a house of silk by her poor parents.
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Jurassic Park is the science fiction highlighting the developments and growth in biotechnology, but when this is mixed with the human greed, then it could be dangerous for this planet and the people. The story starts with John Hammond, an old man inviting paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler, Ian Malcolm a great mathematician,...
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The author recounts his disastrous experience about his journey to the roof of the world and back in 1996 in this book. During May 1996, five expeditions ventured to conquer the Everest summit but ended up losing much more than they had bargained for.
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My expectations were very much raised for this sequel to TWILIGHT and I was so eager to lap it up, that I finished reading it in a night. A feat I had achieved only once earlier i.e. in HARRY POTTER and THE DEATHLY HALLOWS. But the pace of the sequel was sedate comparatively....
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‘A lesson before dying’ is a story of two African American men – Grant Wiggins and Jefferson, who shares a unique bond with one of them awaiting his death call. The story starts with the court proceedings against the 21 year old, uneducated Jefferson, who happened to be at a wrong place at a...
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