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NEW YORK: The cover of Margaret Atwood’s memoir shows a close-up of the author holding up a finger to her mouth, a mischievous look in her eyes, as if to suggest a riddle or two: Is this a book in which secrets will be revealed, or perhaps one in which secrets are kept?
Yes, and yes.
“Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts” is a 600-page look at the personal and creativ...
LONDON: Canadian-Hungarian-British writer David Szalay won the Booker Prize for fiction on Monday for “Flesh,” the story of one man’s life from working-class origins in Hungary to mega-wealth in Britain, in which what isn’t on the page is just as important as what is.
Szalay, 51, beat five other finalists, including favorites Andrew Miller of Britain and Indian author K...
Arcane books are a reviewer’s secret crush. And Testimony by Fire by Atulya Misra is a simple, straightforward narrative with no bells or whistles, no linguistic calisthenics, and it unfolds slowly to reveal its quiet power. For this is a rare book: a full-on fantasy with a deep thinker’s version of India. It is probably a Gandhian fantasy that all that ails India can be miti...
The first woman in Bhutan to be published in English, Kunzang Choden, in her memoir Telling Me My Stories, gives an account of belonging, loss, and displacement, against the backdrop of the rapid modernisation in the country in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Exploring superstitions and customs of Bhutanese culture, the book features a colourful cast of unusual c...
Nearing the end of David Szalay’s Booker-shortlisted novel Flesh, its protagonist István recalls his long-ago adolescence, when the bodily changes he was going through left him “…afraid and disgusted. And all that burgeoning physicality is held within yourself as a sort of secret, even as it is also the actual surface you present to the world, so that you’re left absurdly exp...
