Rue des Boutiques Obscures. Éditions Gallimard, 1978 Patrick MODIANO. Verba Mundi, 1980 A thought suddenly seemed to strike him.”But perhaps you’d rather we didn’t talk about it anymore? Would you prefer to remain incognito?””Not at all,” I said with a smile.The young man brought us a serving of sweetbreads. I often mention bars or restaurants, …
Category Archives: FICTION
The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif SHAFAK, Viking Books, 2007 ============================================== When you didn’t tell anyone the extraordinary, everyone assumed the ordinary . . . Imagination was a dangerously captivating magic for those compelled to be realistic in life, and words could be poisonous for those always destined to be silenced . . . If you couldn’t help harboring higher …
Exit West
Mohsin HAMID, RIVERHEAD PRESS, 2017 “The heat was superb too, and she turned it up as high as she could stand, the heat going all the way into her bones, chilled from months of outdoor cold, and the bathroom filled up with steam like a forest in the mountains, scented with pine and lavender from …
There, There
Tommy ORANGE, Vintage Books, 2018 “And so what we could do had everything to do with being able to understand where we came from, what happened to our people, and how to honor them by living right, by telling our stories. She told me the world was made of stories, nothing else, just stories, and …
the Books that Bind 