2016/03/30
2016/03/03
kateb Yacine- Nedjma
♥ ♥ ♥ Algerian Novel ♥ ♥ ♥
Short Review:
Nedjma: is a masterpiece of North African writing. Its
intricate plot involves four men in love with the beautiful woman whose name
serves as the title of the novel. Nedjma is the central figure of this
disorienting novel, but more than the unfortunate wife of a man she does not
love, more than the unwilling cause of rivalry among many suitors, Nedjma is
the symbol of Algeria ....
2016/03/02
Albert Camus- The Stranger
Novel
Short Review:
Since it was first published in English, in 1946,
Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger, has had a profound
impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man
who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian
beach,
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay- Elena Ferrante
Novel
Short Review:
In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the
two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women.
Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the
comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left
the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel,
Far From the Madding Crowd- Thomas Hardy
Novel
Short
Review:
Far
from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels.
It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit
of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene,
2016/03/01
Carla Buckley - The Things That Keep Us Here
Novel
Short Review:
Everything seems quiet on Ann Brooks’s suburban
cul-de-sac. Despite her impending divorce, she’s created a happy home and her
daughters are adjusting to the change. She feels lucky to be in a supportive
community and confident that she can handle any other hardship that life may
throw her way.....
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