Sept – 2021 -The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen
BG 2 – September ‘21 Review The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Committed” is a sequel to Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer”. The books share a narrator, a Communist spy, half-Vietnamese and half-French, who refers to himself as “a man of two faces and two minds.” The man of two minds attended a […]
Sept – 2021 – The Vegetarian – Han Kang
BG 1 – September ‘21 review The Vegetarian – Han Kang The Vegetarian is a South Korean three-part novel written by Han Kang and first published in 2007. Based on Han’s 1997 short story “The Fruit of My Woman”, The Vegetarian is set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic […]
Aug – 2021 – Nine Lives of Pakistan – Declan Walsh
Nine Lives of Pakistan- by Declan Walsh Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this country through the dramatic lives of nine individuals. While on assignment in Pakistan, as the country careened between crises, he travels throughout the country, […]
Aug – 2021 – The Waiting Years – Fumiko Enchi
BG1 – August 2021 – start of new season The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi A short read with beautifully developed characters and evocative scenes, first published in 1957, (John Bester translated into English in 1971) took the author seven years to write. The novel won the prestigious Noma prize. Set in the Meiji period […]
July – 2021 – The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
Book group 2 report for July – Nabila We had a bonus Book meeting on July 15th . We met on Skype, The book discussed was the widows on Malabar Hill By Sujata Massey. Barbara Angell led the discussion, There were 7 in attendance. They rated the book a 8/10. The book review is below: […]
July – 2021 – A House without Windows – Nadia Hashimi
Title of the book – A House Without Windows Author – Nadia Hashimi Book Group Meeting – July 2nd 2021 A House Without Windows happened to be an interesting reading experience for the group. As our other book readings in the past, this time we each had some similar and some uniquely different take on […]
May – 2021 – Everything I Never Told you – Celeste Ng
May 28th 2021 – Book Group 1 Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng For May 2021, Book Group I read Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. This novel centers on a small-town mixed-race family in the 1970’s grieving the death of their second and favorite child, teenage daughter Lydia. She had […]
May – 2021 – The Latehomecomer – Kao Kalia Yang
Book Review-The Latehomecomer by Kao Kalia Yang It’s a thought provoking book and certainly proves the perseverance and sacrifices the Hmong made to move to America. In search of a place to call home, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward […]
March – 2021 – Big Sister – Jung Chang
Big Sister, Little sister, Red sister by Jung Chang Date: 31st March 2021 Nabila They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible […]
Feb – 2021 – Men Without Women
BG 2 – February 2021 review Men Without Women- By Haruki Murakami The book “Men Without Women” is a collection of seven short stories. As the title suggests, the stories are about who in some way lost or found and then lost women. In every story, a male protagonist suffers the loss of woman he […]