Rendered in these compassionate, candid chapters, theirs is a struggle that speaks to those of us who have endured far less. Vera writes as confidently about the mechanics of international markets as she does about the hopes whispered between grieving lovers. A mature blending of the author's signature wit and melancholy, Lake Success feels timely but not fleeting... RaveThe Washington Post... a strange, intense novel from Ha Jin about the glories and limits of the freedom of the press... one of the most unsettling books about the moral dimensions of modern journalism... Aside from a delicious satire of book publicity — an industry so unhitched from reality that it's hard to parody its exaggerations — The Boat Rocker also dramatizes the vast shadow world of Internet news. Ron randomly pulls a pen.io. If too many contemporary novels strike you as effete and suburban, here's survivalist fiction at its rawest from a novelist who sometimes sounds as bleak as our own Cormac McCarthy. Unfortunately, that's typical of this novel: Its violent acts are related with Victorian decorum; its emotional range is as tightly drawn as Mother Scrooge's corset... What Virgil calls the \'fable-like atmosphere\' remains simply cloudy, clotted by earnest pronouncements... Enger tempts us to imagine we can catch the scent of magic wafting through this story, but too often we get these limp aphorisms instead.
PositiveThe Washington Post\"This is fiction as deliberation, and yet it feels packed with drama. And the Lord's statements supply all the holy insight of a sympathy card from your insurance agent... Panning a book like this may feel like harpooning a minnow, but I think treacly metaphysical fiction does us a cultural disservice. PositiveThe Washington PostFertile as the play is for drama and satire, Prose's novel leaps out beyond the circle of theater people... this [elderly widower] chapter — a masterful short story, really — is almost too good, in that it casts a shadow over the others, which don't attain the same level of complexity or poignancy... a lovely tribute to the transformative value of imagination. RaveThe Washington PostWhat a range Meyer has: He can disembowel a living soldier with just as much color and precision as when he slights a preppy debutante at a sleepover. The result is a fascinating exploration of what's real in a culture that preaches authenticity but worships artificiality … Sontag is so comfortable spinning these big ideas through the details of her novel that they never seem heavy or intrusive. Readers of Cari Mora are likely to suffer similar but wholly temporary discomfort. After all, Tokarczuk isn't revising our understanding of Mozart or presenting a fresh take on Catherine the Great. This is a novel that never takes a breath, that works for our attention like a stand-up comic in front of a firing squad... Indeed, the fate of the story's heroine appears in a brief, impressionistic preface, but you won't fully appreciate that opening until you finish the whole novel and begin obsessively reading it again... Ron randomly pulls a pen photo. Mandel is a consummate, almost profligate world builder. Good Question ( 115). There's much to love about this capacious novel, but there's also so much. Sweet as their affection for each other is, the story's asymmetrical insight into their motives makes Della feel flat. Maguire has a style glazed with a patina of Old World formality. RaveThe Washington Post... [a] thoroughly delightful novel... Greer is an exceptionally lovely writer, capable of mingling humor with sharp poignancy... Greer is brilliantly funny about the awkwardness that awaits a traveling writer of less repute...
Gurnah moves fluidly between the complicated lives of his characters and the reckless actions of old empires. While the early parts of the novel contain striking vignettes about Paul's naivete—his passion, his earnestness—the plot's forward motion soon stalls in ruminations on the nature of love, the loss of innocence and the unreliability of memory. Bitter Orange Tree is a story of mourning and alienation, and Alharthi has developed a tone that captures that sense of being suspended in the timelessness of grief... These early chapters follow the general outlines of Hillary's life, and sometimes it's hard to remember we're reading fiction, not autobiography. And yet, an unmistakable glimmer of faith radiates from these biblical reimaginings, even though they're presented as the work of a woman who "can't believe in God. " And he exposes the extent to which novelists will go to ignore, obscure and even deny their sources... expands into a deliciously absurd comedy about literary fame. Even before the police descend, 'Lally' Ledesma, a CNN reporter, is already lurking in the yard, greasing his way into Vernon's confidence, seducing his mother, and flattering her chubby friends. Ron randomly pulls a pen image. Religion doesn't bore or frighten her. Everything about The Stranger in the Lifeboat is sketched in cartoon colors — from its vacuous theology and maudlin tragedies to its class warfare theme. The adolescent souls in these adult bodies are numbingly petty — and the novel offers no relief from their flat voices, their obvious confessions, their poisonous jealousy. In this new novel, Atwood is far more focused on creating a brisk thriller than she is on exploring the perversity of systemic repression... the fact that Atwood keeps challenging such categories is all part of her extraordinary effort to resist the chains we place on each other... In the libidinous groves of academe, Brendan finds his romantic thrusts blunted by women more sophisticated, enlightened and aggressive than his pliant high school sweetheart. Tóibín isn't so much interested in denying the miraculous as he is in placing that question in the background to focus, instead, on Jesus' disruptive presence, the political and social chaos he fomented. Many pages of the novel are given over to acerbic arguments in which Serenata spars with her husband about his rabid training.
Their voices mingle, and isolated images, so precisely captured by Otsuka, deliver an explosion far beyond their size. But Jones offers no clear lines of culpability here, which is what makes An American Marriage so compelling... Whether that's a comedy or a tragedy is the abiding suspense of this plot. But that becomes easier to remember when Hillary describes having sex with Bill...
In its structure and pacing, though, this is a different novel from Black Leopard, Red Wolf. Nguyen has wrapped a cerebral thriller around a desperate expat story that confronts the existential dilemmas of our age. MixedThe Washington Post\".. Blowback is feedback on Donald Trump's raging years in office, it's only a glancing shot. Kushner cycles through the women's tragic stories, mingling horrific anecdotes from before they were incarcerated with grim events in prison. RaveThe Washington PostThe Testaments opens in Gilead about 15 years after The Handmaid's Tale, but it's an entirely different novel in form and tone. Her new novel, is a medley of voices -- in first, second and third person -- scrambled through time and across the globe with a 70-page PowerPoint presentation reproduced toward the end. On a broader scale, his portrayal of the symbiotic relationship between politicians and journalists is as damning as it is comic... RaveThe Washington PostMark Haddon has written a terrifically exciting novel... It's not too early to suggest that Mitchell can triumph in any genre he chooses … Mitchell is working within a literary tradition stained by Western slurs about the inscrutable ways of orientals, their seductive mysticism and occult sensuality, but he represents and deconstructs those racist stereotypes with a shipload of fascinating domestic and imported characters … Even as the forces of evil ramp up, this remains a resolutely thoughtful novel about a country wrenched into the modern age. RaveThe Washington Post... remarkable... a phenomenal coalescence of memoir, fiction, history and cultural analysis... One of the most fascinating themes of this tour de force is the sustained tension between memoir and invention that runs through any creative person's life... Akhtar's portrait of the artist as a young Muslim exposes both his vanity and his capacity for obsequiousness, particularly around wealthy people... And Year One barrels along for a couple hundred pages with heartbreaking losses, hair-raising escapes and gruesome attacks... Once the cast of likable human and Uncanny survivors starts rebuilding society, the plot shifts down from the thrill of apocalyptic disaster to the tedium of inventory control... Told first from Ben's perspective and then from Mike's, these moments continually blend past and present, enacting each narrator's confession as a kind of prose poem... Washington inhabits these two men so naturally that the sophistication of this form is rendered entirely invisible, and their narratives unspool as spontaneously and clearly as late-night conversation... El Akkad has done nothing less than reveal how a curious girl evolves into a pitiless fighter. MixedWashington PostSweeping...
RaveThe Washington PostIn 2012, Jess Walter's breakout bestseller, Beautiful Ruins, brought movieland hilariously and brilliantly to life... RaveThe Washington PostElif Shafak's new novel reveals such a timely confluence of today's issues that it seems almost clairvoyant. More than 70 characters rage and snore through these pages. RaveThe Washington PostLouise Erdrich's new novel, LaRose, begins with the elemental gravitas of an ancient story: One day while hunting, a man accidentally kills his neighbor's 5-year-old son. It's clever but not funny; a satire that never pricks its target. In harrowing scenes of personal sacrifice — or deadly self-righteousness — we see an unlikely group drawn together by their absolute conviction that our rapacious destruction of trees is an act of mass suicide. Too often the humor shoots blanks... Where we crave something subversive and shocking, a satire commensurate to the American carnage, we get, instead, one-liners that feel Bob-Hope-fresh. Tara M. Stringfellow.
I only wish we got to see more of that fire in this novel. That structure rotates the scandal in curious ways, and it also shows off just what a clever ventriloquist Zevin is... She writes with a mercy that encompasses all things. This is one of the many issues that Homegoing explores so powerfully... [the] structure — essentially a novel in linked stories — places extraordinary demands on Gyasi.
RaveThe Washington PostA brilliant young critic... Watts has written a sonorous, complex novel that's entirely her own... [the] plural narrator, knowing and wry, is just one of the novel's rich pleasures. It all skates along quickly, but slow down and you're liable to crack through the thin patches of Hannah's style. You either fall under this incantation, or you break away in frustration. The result is a novel of Indian magic and modern technology, a parody of New World ambition and an elegy of assimilation.
— starts to feel like a weird session of Wednesday night bingo. RaveThe Washington Post\"I'm embarrassed by how much I enjoyed John Boyne's wicked new novel, A Ladder to the Sky. With his panoramic vision of the displacements of war, Yoon reminds us of the people never considered or accounted for in the halls of power... Yoon makes us care deeply about these adolescents and what happens to them. PositiveThe Washington PostOne wants to say that The Gifted School is preternaturally timely, but it feels, instead, like a faint imitation: a story dripped from the headlines. It's that rare experimental technique that sounds like a sophisticated affectation but in her hands feels instantly accommodating, entirely natural. Paradoxically light and melancholy, it hews to the border of fantasy but stays in the land of realism... you can sense the real heat radiating off these pages... offers a brutal critique of American aristocrats and especially the distortion field around them that makes their selfishness look like duty to a higher cause... Wilson is clearly writing from a point of deep sympathy... Though What Strange Paradise celebrates a few radical acts of compassion, it does so only by placing those moments of moral courage against a vast ocean of cruelty. And ridiculous as the characters in Big Guns are, they pale next to the NRA's Wayne LaPierre or politicians like Marco Rubio and Rob Portman, who tweet their prayers at grieving parents while accepting millions from the gun lobby. She moves among them, licking up phrases and glances, catching the sharp savor of this smoky place so well you'll taste it on your lips... PanThe Washington political and environmental context is only vaguely and rarely hinted at in Future Home. Clarke's power certainly extends beyond mere suspense, but her story relies on the steady accretion of apprehension that finally gives way to a base-shifting revelation.
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