Last night I stayed up late to finish Anna Funder's debut novel, All That I Am (Harper, 2012), even though the rest of my family was sound asleep upstairs.I couldn't put the book down and ploughed through it in three days, averaging 130 pages a day.Funder's novel, based … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Golden Hour
My father loved Italy. When he spoke about traveling, he'd always mention Italy. The food, the culture, and the beautiful sights. But Italy was more to him than that. He'd never fail to explain how Italians treated Jews far better than other nationalities in Europe during the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Escape from Hong Kong
After much anticipation, I finally received and read Tim Luard's fabulous Escape from Hong Kong: Admiral Chan Chak's Christmas Day Dash, 1941 (Hong Kong University Press, 2012).And boy did it not disappoint.This has to be one of the most exciting wartime escape … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Dream of Ding Village
With all the Great Leap Forward books I've been reading, I thought I'd take a break and try something contemporary. So last week I picked up Yan Lianke's Dream of Ding Village (Grove Press, 2011), which has been listed as a finalist for the 2011 Man Asian Literary … [Read more...]
Book of the week–His Wife and Daughters
This week I fired up my Kindle and read Wendy Nelson Tokunaga's page-clicking novel, His Wife and Daughters.Although the story revolves around the family of a California congressman who is involved in a 1980s sex scandal, it's so much more than a scandal. As a result, this … [Read more...]
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