2666 — ARC Roberto Bolano Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, New York, 2008 Any of you who are regular readers of my posts know that I have a slight (okay, maybe more than slight), obsession with the works of Roberto Bolano. They’ll also know that Bolano died tragically young after a long illness, and they might [...]
The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai Atlantic Monthly Press, U.S. 2006 Kiran Desai, daughter of well-known writer Anita Desai, won many awards for this awesome debut novel, including the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is Indian, but has permanent residency in the United States. Her partner is Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. [...]
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields Random House, Canada, 1993 This is Carol Shields masterpiece. It is the first novel ever to win both the Canadian Governor General’s Award and the American Pulitzer Prize. Being an American-born naturalized Canadian, she is the first and only author to have been eligible for both. The Stone Diaries also [...]