“I’m sick of light installations that say fuck-all about this historical moment.”
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Read this book because turning away is cruel and violent. Read this book to resist the powers that normalise Genocide. Read this book because you will lose your humanity without it.
Each character is trapped by their own yearning — for validation, for love, for escape — and each damages others, sometimes irreparably, in their search.
Chandran’s latest novel, Unfinished Business, takes us back to the Sri Lankan civil war in the style of a CIA thriller. And in a thrilling twist, Chandran herself has spoken to Honi about the novel and her writing process.
Marjan Kamali’s novel portrayed a bond so strong that those who read it could not help but weep.
Faced with narratives populated by gaps, omissions and distortions, Funder set to pen a “fiction of inclusion”, dismantling the myth of Orwell as self-made man.
We are taken by the hand to navigate the many lifetimes of a family in Gaza, as recounted between a father and daughter, storyteller and writer, observed and observer.
An exercise in elegant and measured prose, Abdu’s literary offering is an open invitation into the garden that is the lives of its inhabitants, permitting us to visit an ecosystem of human emotions in just 318 pages.
The components of the novel — diaries and vignettes, woman and crocodile — are caught between coming together and falling apart: they dance with each other.
It is 2024, and the New York Times Book Review has published their list of 100 Best Books of the 21st Century. They compiled the list by asking famed writers to provide a list of their favourite books. But do the most-lauded writers pen the best books? And where is the literature from marginalised voices?
