The GuardianNowTomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree review – the timeless search to be seenverified_publisherThe Guardian - Ankita ChakrabortyGeetanjali Shree, the first Hindi writer to win the International Booker prize, seems to have come out of nowhere. Until last month, some very famous Hindi Indian journalists didn’t know her name. At 65, she has been writing for about 30 years, and Tomb of Sand, translated by Daisy Rockwell from her …
The Guardian1 day agoSummer reading: the 50 hottest new books for a great escapeverified_publisherThe Guardian - Justine Jordan, David Shariatmadari and Imogen Russell WilliamsThe Exhibitionist by Charlotte Mendelson Longlisted for the Women’s prize, this is a darkly funny portrait of a dysfunctional family bent out of shape over decades by its narcissistic artist patriarch – and of what happens when his wife will no longer squash her own creative energies. Wise, waspish …
The Guardian4 hours agoZelensky: A Biography by Serhii Rudenko review – from voice of Paddington to global giantverified_publisherThe Guardian - Andrew AnthonyUntil 24 February this year, Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a name that was not widely known outside Ukraine. True, he’d enjoyed a cameo role in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, when it appeared that the former American president had tried to pressure the new Ukrainian president into serving …
The Guardian4 hours agoAmy & Lan by Sadie Jones review – the end of childhood innocenceverified_publisherThe Guardian - Stephanie MerrittSadie Jones’s fifth novel, The Snakes, was her first to move away from a historical backdrop: a thriller-cum-morality tale heavy with symbolism, where the strife in one family functioned as a microcosm of the deep divisions of late capitalism. Now she has followed it with Amy & Lan, another …
The Guardian6 hours agoThe Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran; Fire Island by Jack Parlett – reviewverified_publisherThe Guardian - Peter ConradPausing briefly during his round of almost motorised erotic delights in New York, the hero of Andrew Holleran’s first novel, Dancer from the Dance, proclaims the glory of gay liberation and foresees its doom. “We’re completely free,” he says, “and that’s the horror.” This was in 1978; three years …
The Guardian19 hours agoTaymour Soomro: ‘I want to challenge reductionist narratives about Pakistan’verified_publisherThe Guardian - Alex PrestonTaymour Soomro was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and read law at Cambridge University and Stanford. After a brief career as a solicitor in London and Milan, and an even briefer stint in fashion, he began to write fiction. At first he wrote short stories – his work has been published in the New Yorker …