As many as the numerous places it has been in my imagination. Time slows down as readers begin to see this world in a new way: the tender green of grass in early spring, so fresh for one to discover; a rainbow in the sunset, so beautiful it makes one cry. Xue Tao wrote this boo...
Also known as: Ernest Miller Hemingway Written by Philip Young Evan Pugh Professor of English, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1980–88. Author ofErnest Hemingway;coauthor ofThe Hemingway Manuscripts. Philip Young Fact-checked by ...
you’ll find this much British police procedural book set in the Fens a much more relaxed pace. It’s not just about the crime, but also about the team working to solve it, their personal relationships and background troubles, as several are returning back into the team...
a husband still had the right to sell his wife. Even as late as the early 20th century, women could neither vote nor hold elective office in Europe and in most of theUnited States(where several territories and states grantedwomen’s suffragelong before the federal government did so). Women...
Stasiland by Anna Funder won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction in 2004 (now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize) and chronicles the lives of several people who lived in the German Democratic Republic, also known as East Germany, during the Cold War. Funder, an Australian journalist,...
‘Notes on an Execution’ straddles both literary and crime fiction, posing reflective questions about the justice system while still ramping up the tension both in the present-day storyline with the clock ticking down to Ansel’s execution and in the flashbacks such as when his mother attempts...
Those old days are brought back to life in nostalgic flashbacks so that readers get a sense of the smells and flavours, as well as the sentiments and wisdom that grew over time. Tie Ning is the author of Mei gui men 玫瑰们 (The rose door), Da yu nü 大浴女 (The large bathers), ...
However, at the beginning of the novel, there were some flashbacks and flash forwards that happen very quickly, which at times, was hard to keep up with. Because I read this book as an eARC, I had to keep going back to the beginning chapters to check the dates of the events that ...
Several things occurred to me as I read this book in 1996, and again to write this review: Garrett correctly sounded the horn on how important it was to control disease by open communication between government, the people and the medical establishment (something that horribly failed in the case...
read. It wasn’t easy…but that was the whole point of the book, really. It wasn’t a nice, easy read because the world the characters were in wasn’t a nice or an easy one. I just kind of wish that the multiple flashbacks hadn’t been included, as they pulled me out of the ...