KeenOwl rated The Namesake: 2 stars
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Gogol is named after his father's favourite author. But growing up in an Indian family in suburban America, the boy …
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KeenOwl rated The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories: 2 stars
KeenOwl rated The death of Ivan Ilych: 3 stars
Leo Tolstoy: The death of Ivan Ilych (2008, Melville House Pub.)
The death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
This satirical novella tells the story of the life and early death of a high court judge. Ivan Ilych is …
KeenOwl rated Days Without End: 3 stars
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
Winner of the 2016 Costa Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
Sebastian Barry's sensational …
KeenOwl rated Spring garden: 3 stars
Tomoka Shibasaki: Spring garden (2017)
Spring garden by Tomoka Shibasaki
"Divorced and cut off from his family, Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block, …
KeenOwl rated Man's Search for Meaning: 3 stars
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its …
KeenOwl rated My Name is Red: 2 stars
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
In Istanbul, in the late 1590's, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his …
KeenOwl rated The War of Art: 1 star
KeenOwl rated Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race: 4 stars
Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote on her blog about her frustration with the way that discussions of race …
KeenOwl rated Capitalist Realism: 3 stars
Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? explores Fisher's concept of "capitalist realism," which he takes to describe "the widespread sense …
KeenOwl rated Le Sympathisant: 3 stars
Le Sympathisant by Viet Thanh Nguyen
The Sympathizer is the 2015 debut novel by Vietnamese American professor Viet Thanh Nguyen. It is a best-selling novel and …
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Catch-22 is like no other novel. It has its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth …
KeenOwl rated Do Not Say We Have Nothing: 4 stars
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien, Madeleine Thien
Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a novel by Madeleine Thien published in 2016 in Canada. It follows a …
KeenOwl rated To the Lighthouse: 5 stars
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
This novel is an extraordinarily poignant evocation of a lost happiness that lives on in the memory. For years now …