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.
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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?
Sitting down with Honi Soit, Dunn spoke to the weight and joys of such firsts, her journey in writing, and what it means for me to be able to tell her own story, in a way, in Dirt Poor Islanders, and dispel the countless representations that seem to indicate that there is one way to look or be Tongan in Mount Druitt.
I couldn’t help but notice the undeniable creativity and joy in the very space we occupied. Pillars were lit with the soft glow of multi-colour, emulating the house on the cover of The House That Joy Built.
When pressed if he was going to write anything more after Question 7, Flanagan said “not books, no” and that since writing it, he had been overcome by a stillness.