Another Country (2012) – Anjali JOSEPH
Moving away from China, and indeed, all of East Asia, I’m continuing my journey down the Man Asian Literary Prize. Anjali Joseph is from Bombay, though went to university in […]
Tag Archives: France
The Marriage Plot (2011) – Jeffrey EUGENIDES
Jeffrey Eugenides’ previous novel, Middlesex, rightly won the Pulitzer Prize in 2003 – it’s an excellent novel, and you should all check it out if you haven’t already. But that […]
Half Blood Blues (2011) – Esi EDUGYAN
With the announcement of the 2011 Man Booker Prize looming, I’m still trying to work my way through the novels on the longlist that interest me. My sure-fire bet, The […]
Invisible (2009) – Paul AUSTER
There’s a recurring theme with the books I’ve been reading lately – they’re the only ones written in English in Kinokuniya that sound more interesting than Twilight or the hundreds […]
Regeneration (1991) – Pat BARKER
In an attempt to find some cheap English books in a country that isn’t big on stocking foreign language books anywhere, I headed to the internet to find some cheap […]
Oxygen (2001) – Andrew MILLER
To be honest, I can’t even remember why I picked this novel up in the first place. I suspect it was because it had been shortlisted for the Booker in […]
