A thread of books read in 2020.
Book 1: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. @fsgbooks
A sparse and extremely powerful read on Antigua - past and present. A brilliant read, so much so that though published in 1988, so many insights hold true for countries once under the British rule.
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A sparse and extremely powerful read on Antigua - past and present. A brilliant read, so much so that though published in 1988, so many insights hold true for countries once under the British rule.
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@fsgbooks Book 2: Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim. Translated from the Korean by Janet Hong. @DandQ
A book that will wrench and gut your heart. A book on "comfort women" - Koreans used by Japanese soldiers during WWII. Please read this book. You must.
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A book that will wrench and gut your heart. A book on "comfort women" - Koreans used by Japanese soldiers during WWII. Please read this book. You must.
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@fsgbooks @DandQ Book 3: Exquisite Cadavers by Meena Kandasamy.
A book that is about Karim and Maya, their life in London, while observing the lives of the underprivileged, the writer's creative process, and more in marginalia.
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A book that is about Karim and Maya, their life in London, while observing the lives of the underprivileged, the writer's creative process, and more in marginalia.
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@fsgbooks @DandQ Book 4: I Remember Beirut by Zeina Abirached
Zeina Abirached writes about growing up during the Lebanese Civil War. She remembers things that happened in Beirut and what it was like to be a child in such a time.
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Zeina Abirached writes about growing up during the Lebanese Civil War. She remembers things that happened in Beirut and what it was like to be a child in such a time.
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@fsgbooks @DandQ Book 5: Manto & I by Nandita Das
And it suddenly sprang on me while reading this book, that we need Mantoiyat today more than ever. We need voices who believe in unity than division. We need to believe that we will overcome.
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And it suddenly sprang on me while reading this book, that we need Mantoiyat today more than ever. We need voices who believe in unity than division. We need to believe that we will overcome.
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Book 6: Jaipur Journals by Namita Gokhale.
Jaipur Journals is that friend you speak with about books, the publishing industry, and how perhaps the culture of reading is either dying or not.
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Jaipur Journals is that friend you speak with about books, the publishing industry, and how perhaps the culture of reading is either dying or not.
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Book 7: All My Goodbyes by Mariana Dimópulos. Translated from the Spanish by Alice Whitmore.
All My Goodbyes is a strange read that is also satisfying on so many levels. It is a love story, a story of trauma and a story of memory told in fragments.
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All My Goodbyes is a strange read that is also satisfying on so many levels. It is a love story, a story of trauma and a story of memory told in fragments.
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Book 8: Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu.
Interior Chinatown is a deeply emotional book about race, identity, pop culture, and what roles we are forced to play in society, because of where we come from.
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Interior Chinatown is a deeply emotional book about race, identity, pop culture, and what roles we are forced to play in society, because of where we come from.
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Book 9: Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid.
Such a Fun Age is a solid book of and for our times, that will leave you wanting more. It's take on privilege, wealth, class, and crossing of paths of people is refreshing, and makes it a compulsive read.
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Such a Fun Age is a solid book of and for our times, that will leave you wanting more. It's take on privilege, wealth, class, and crossing of paths of people is refreshing, and makes it a compulsive read.
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Book 10: North Station by Bae Suah. Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith.
The stories are all over the place – in terms of places, people, time, & jumping from one narrative to another. This is one short story collection you must read for sure.
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The stories are all over the place – in terms of places, people, time, & jumping from one narrative to another. This is one short story collection you must read for sure.
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Book 11: The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante. Translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Celina the doll is jealous of the new kitten Minu. She gets lost along the way & the story reaches the beach. What happens next to her is what the book is about
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Celina the doll is jealous of the new kitten Minu. She gets lost along the way & the story reaches the beach. What happens next to her is what the book is about
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Book 12: The Emperor who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India.
It speaks of Shukoh, of whom less is written, much less spoken. A fascinating look of a family, Aurangzeb's ascension to the throne, and the politics that happened in its wake.
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It speaks of Shukoh, of whom less is written, much less spoken. A fascinating look of a family, Aurangzeb's ascension to the throne, and the politics that happened in its wake.
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Book 13: So All Is Peace by Vandana Singh-Lal
So All Is Peace is about women living in the country – their daily encounters with men, and what it leads to. It is a book about starvation and more.
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So All Is Peace is about women living in the country – their daily encounters with men, and what it leads to. It is a book about starvation and more.
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January 2020 Wrap-Up.
13 books read.
13 books read.
Book 14: Amour: How the French Talk About Love by Stefania Rousselle.
Amour as a book made me think about my loves and my relationships. Relationships with my parents, my lovers, friends, and the ones that didn’t culminate to anything.
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Amour as a book made me think about my loves and my relationships. Relationships with my parents, my lovers, friends, and the ones that didn’t culminate to anything.
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Book 15: Like Blood on the Bitten Tongue: Delhi Poems by Akhil Katyal. Art: Vishwajyoti Ghosh
Katyal’s poems are about love, longing, a homage to Delhi, to its streets & signs, its small shops, crooked lanes, its monuments, & corners where lovers meet.
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Katyal’s poems are about love, longing, a homage to Delhi, to its streets & signs, its small shops, crooked lanes, its monuments, & corners where lovers meet.
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Book 16: Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna. Translated from the French by Helge Dascher.
“Year of the Rabbit” is a story of a family in the times of Khmer Rouge. This book is the story of a family journeying from Phnom Penh in the hope of freedom.
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“Year of the Rabbit” is a story of a family in the times of Khmer Rouge. This book is the story of a family journeying from Phnom Penh in the hope of freedom.
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Book 17: Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine.
“Citizen” is the perfect book of our times and sadly represents the world that we live in. It is an age of race differentiation, colour differentiation and violence, and sometimes also hope.
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“Citizen” is the perfect book of our times and sadly represents the world that we live in. It is an age of race differentiation, colour differentiation and violence, and sometimes also hope.
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Book 18: Snow, Dog, Foot by Claudio Morandini. Translated from the Italian by J. Ockenden
Claudio Morandini is fantastic at spinning a tale of a man, a dog, & a human foot that appears, poking out of the receding snow, and all this occurs on a mountain.
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Claudio Morandini is fantastic at spinning a tale of a man, a dog, & a human foot that appears, poking out of the receding snow, and all this occurs on a mountain.
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Book 19: A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende. Translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.
Allende’s prose is glorious, and exacting. The book travels from Spain to France, Chile & Venezuela, & each detail is well-thought after
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Allende’s prose is glorious, and exacting. The book travels from Spain to France, Chile & Venezuela, & each detail is well-thought after
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Book 20: How We Fight For Our Lives: A Memoir by Saeed Jones.
You have to fight, reclaim a lot, snatch even, and live on your terms. “How We Fight for Our Lives” by Saeed Jones is a memoir that has several layers to it. Of being gay, black and more.
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You have to fight, reclaim a lot, snatch even, and live on your terms. “How We Fight for Our Lives” by Saeed Jones is a memoir that has several layers to it. Of being gay, black and more.
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Book 21: The Book of Indian Kings: Stories & Essays
The writing is lucid. The book is to the point. Not a single piece to me stuck out as a sore thumb, which says a lot about a collection. Read it over a weekend. You will definitely not be disappointed.
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The writing is lucid. The book is to the point. Not a single piece to me stuck out as a sore thumb, which says a lot about a collection. Read it over a weekend. You will definitely not be disappointed.
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Book 22: Chhotu: A Tale of Partition and Love by Varud Gupta and Ayushi Rastogi.
Would recommend it to people who just want to start reading about the Partition.
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Would recommend it to people who just want to start reading about the Partition.
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Book 23: Letters of Note: Love. Compiled by Shaun Usher.
Whether it is Nabokov writing to his wife, or Johnny Cash to June Carter, each letter is unique, each expressing love in a different manner.
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Whether it is Nabokov writing to his wife, or Johnny Cash to June Carter, each letter is unique, each expressing love in a different manner.
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