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World Literature

Drama, Indian Literature, World Literature

Sleeping on Jupiter

June 2, 2021

I liked this book, and I read it rapidly. I did think that Manil Suri’s review in the NYT was unfair. Roy did not leave as many loose ends in…

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Drama, humorous, World Literature

A Gentleman in Moscow

May 14, 2021

Initially, I thought: how could a book about a man confined to a hotel for life have enough plot or character development for 450 pages? Yet this turned out to…

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World Literature

Au Bonheur des Dames

January 11, 2018

While I enjoyed this novel, in part for its detailed descriptions (Zola’s realism is exquisite), it also felt like it took me forever to read it. For a while I…

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Indian Literature, Post-colonial, World Literature

Ghachar Ghochar

November 6, 2017

According to Suketu Mehta’s blurb on the front of the novel, “Vivek Shanbhag is an Indian Chekhov.” This is pretty accurate. Ghachar Ghochar is short, subtle, and totally compelling. The ending…

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Post-colonial, Queer Literature, World Literature

The Yacoubian Building

October 9, 2017

I’m mentoring a senior capstone project on this novel, so I figured I’d better read it. For me, it started too slowly. Plot did not “thicken” until around page 80,…

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