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

The Bamboo Stalk- Saud Alsanous


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