Quick Reviews

Year of Publication: 2016 Publisher: Faber & Faber Ltd ISBN: 9780571327232 Strong Point: It is quite short. Weak Point: Everything! For example, if I had not read the synopsis, I…

Year of Publication: 2013 Publisher: Fourth Estate ISBN: 9780007356348 Strong Point: How the author tells us the past stories of both protagonists Ifemelu and Obinze as well as their present…

Year of publication: 2017 Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 9780141048789 Strong Point: Theroux' prose is very well balance and his vocabulary is quite rich. His sense of humour is sometimes very…

Year of Publication: 2001 (first published in 1962). Publisher: Penguin Classics ISBN: 9780141186375 Strong Point: The description of the 50s American underground music scene and of the different types who…

Year of publication: 2011 (first published in 2007). Publisher: Tusquets ISBN: 9788483835937 Strong Point: The reader gets to know how and why Murakami started his career as a writer as well as his…

Year of publication: 2013 (first published in 1969). Publisher: Orbit Books ISBN: 9781857230741 Strong Point: The lyricism of the language and the way the author describes the relationship between the two main protagonists. …

Year of publication: 2016 Publisher: Spiegel & Grau International Edition ISBN: 978-0-525-50902-8 Strong Point: The sincerity with which Trevor is telling us about his life. He tells us the good events as well…

Year of publication: 2018 Publisher: Raven Books ISBN: 978-1-4088-8951-0 Strong Point: The book is brilliant regarding its complex structure. The many characters and their own idiosyncrasies as well as their…

Year of publication: 2019 Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd ISBN: 978-0-00-829711-4 Strong Point: The way the author tells the story in "The Hunting Party" with continuous flashbacks to the past of the characters and to the last three…