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It is the future, and all books are banned. But after Guy Montag, the protagonist and a fire fighter whose job it is to burn books everywhere, meets Clarisse McLellan, his thoughts about books (and life) change forever.
Before reading this, I had only general understanding of what life was like for people in Afghanistan, especially during the time before our current war.
This is a series of five novels, each sharply, clearly and tightly plotted round significant moments throughout Patrick Melrose's life - the violation of a child, which goes uncomforted; the intensity and texture of mind and mood of the alcoholic and drug addicted; the brittle humour and emptines
This book is about the multitudes inside yourself, the singular perspective those multitudes create, and the explosive, soul-wringing ecstasy that can occur when all of that collides with al that someone else is.
The Conference of the Birds. Peter Sis. 2011, Penguin Press, 978-1-59420-306-0.
Written by one of the first foreign tourists to visit the post- war Republic of Chechnya .
A compelling piece of fiction that takes the reader to the very heart of war torn Chechnya .
This very touching story by Jojo Moyes is about Lou Clark who takes a job with Will Traynor. Will is quadriplegic after a collision with a motorcycle and he has lost the desire to live. Lou tries to help him regain that.
In the first volume of his epic memoir cycle, My Struggle, Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard recounts the emotional vicissitudes of his adolescence and young adulthood with a sense of guilelessness and detail unprecedented in literature.
Volume II of Knausgaard's six-volume My Struggle project finds the author newly divorced and caught in the throes of new love. Remarriage and, eventually, fatherhood ensue, and with them come moments of ecstasy.