Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
2016/02/23
Red Sorghum- Mo Yan
Red Sorghum- Mo Yan
Novel
Nobel Prize
Short Review:
The
acclaimed novel of love and resistance during late 1930s China by Mo Yan,
winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Literature Spanning three generations,
2016/02/22
Yukio Mishima - Spring Snow
The
Sea of Fertility, 1
Novel
Short Review:
Yukio
Mishima’s Spring Snow is the first novel in his masterful tetralogy, The
Sea of Fertility. Here we meet Shigekuni Honda,
2016/02/21
Alberto Moravia- Boredom
Alberto Moravia- Boredom
Or The Empty Canvas
Short Review
The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto
Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an
extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern
society.
2016/02/20
Yasunari Kawabata- The Old Capital
Yasunari Kawabata- The Old Capital
(Nobel Prize)
The
Old Capital is one of the three novels cited
specifically by the Nobel Committee when they awarded Kawabata the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1968.
2016/02/19
Isabel Allende Llona - paula
One from: Latin
American writers: Isabel Allende .
Short Review
When
Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the
author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the
telling,
2016/02/18
Kokoro- Natsume Soseki
Kokoro- Natsume
Soseki
Short Review
Literally
meaning "heart", the Japanese word "kokoro" can be more
distinctly translated as "the heart of things" or
"feeling.
2016/02/16
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