Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cosmology, god, martin rees, michio kaku, parallel worlds, physics on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and our Future in the Cosmos (2005)
by Michio Kaku
Penguin Books, 428pp
Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist who seems determined to bring the complex ideas and theories of his field to a much wider audience, and if the evidence of this book is anything to go by, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged don delillo, john updike, moshin hamid, the falling man, the reluctant fundamentalist, the terrorist on July 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007)
by Mohsin Hamid
Penguin Books, 209pp
Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 international bestseller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2007, tells the story of Changez (the Urdu for Genghis), a possible terrorist meeting a possible CIA agent in Lahore. “Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Lullabies for Little Criminals (2006)
by Heather O’Neill
Quercus, 373pp
A Short Review
In Lullabies for Little Criminals, Canadian author Heather O’Neill introduces to Baby, a twelve year old girl whom lives with her drug-addict father Jules, as they move between apartments, hotel rooms and rehabs in Montreal. As Baby’s relationship with her father fractures and he falls [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged anthills of the savannah, Booker Prize, chinua achebe, david diop, Kangan, Man Booker International Prize on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Anthills of the Savannah (1987)
by Chinua Achebe
Picador Edition, 233pp
Also available as a Penguin Modern Classic
Anthills of the Savannah see Achebe returning to similar territory as his last novel, A Man of the People – politics of post-colonial Africa. Whereas A Man of the People saw events leading up to a coup, Anthills of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a man of the people, anthills of the savannah, anthony burgess, chinua achebe, Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, John Pepper Clark, no longer at ease, things fall apart on July 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Man of the People (1966)
by Chinua Achebe
Heinemann Publishers, 149pp
This book is unavailable in the Penguin Modern Classics range
Chinua Achebe’s 1966 novella, A Man of the People, was selected by Anthony Burgess as one of the best novels in English since 1939. So reading this work one comes with high expectations. It is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged african trilogy, angus calder, arrow of god, chinua achebe, ibo, igbo, no longer at ease, things fall apart on July 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Arrow of God (1964)
by Chinua Achebe
Picador Edition, The African Trilogy, from which page numbering comes.
This book is unavailable in the Penguin Classics range.
Arrow of God – often paired with Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, as part of The African Trilogy – is a book with a troubled gestation and a [...]
