Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is a gripping family saga of loss, love, desire, economics, history and war. It reads like a dastaan and Min Jin Lee definitely is a crafted storyteller. …

Imagine entire world driven by math. Our emotions spelling out through mathematical formulas. The time we spend governed by accurate time scale. One imagines a mechanical system guided by algorithms full of order and devoid of chaos and unmoved by emotions that’s what science fiction classic written by Yevgeny Zamyatin…

“What does a word mean? And a life? In the end, it seems to me, the same thing. Just as a word can have many dimensions, many nuances, great complexity, so, too, can a person, a life. Language is the mirror, the principal metaphor. Because ultimately the meaning of a word, like that of a person, is boundless, ineffable.” I don’t particularly like reading non fiction. I picked up “In Other Words” because it’s a sort of memoir of my favorite writer — Jhumpa Lahiri as she explores Italian language. Honestly speaking, I was expecting the book to be plain, something which would sound exciting just to her fans…

"It's not the fear of death, the hunger, and the deprivation that scares me, it's what people of capable of doing to each other when they are at war". — Nimeta finds her life torn apart just like her nation when the Yugoslavian civil war knocks the doors of Bosnia. …

“The song can make me feel so sad”….”I don’t know, I guess I imagine myself wandering in a deep wood. I’m all alone and it’s cold and dark, and nobody comes to save me” — while playing “norwegian wood” by the beatles. “Norwegian Wood” derives its name from the famous…

“No Longer Human” by Osamu Dazai is sort of an autobiographical story. It’s ranked among top fiction books of Japan. The story has been narrated in first person and taken from a series of notebooks (3 notebooks) written presumably by Yozo (the protagonist). Yozo is a not a regular kid…

“Rumours of Spring” is the debut of Farah Bashir. I usually don’t read non fiction but I was excited about this one because it’s Farah’s first book and on top of that, the cover was very pretty! Farah has written a scintillating account of her childhood as she navigated the conflicted…

A short book review of “First Person Singular” by Haruki Murakami. This book is for the Murakami fans. Unlike his other novels or short story collections, this one is a bit softer and lacks the intensity which we usually expect from a Murakami book. All the 8 short stories are…

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