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Taha KeharThe News International |
D omestic fiction is often believed to be detached from public realities. Those who harbour such cynical assumptions tend to forget that the...
Intermezzo By Sally Rooney Faber and Faber ISBN: 9780571365470 432pp. Grief is an all-encompassing emotion that most of us are woefully...
N early four decades after it hit the shelves, Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen still stands out for its evocation of love, bereavement and loneliness...
I n The Witch of Blackbird Pond, American author Elizabeth George Speare refers to October as the month when “any wonderful unexpected thing might...
Last of the Letters By Fatima Ijaz Bottlecap Press 24pp. Once billed as avenues to promote ‘street literature’, chapbooks have been lapped up by...
Roman Stories By Jhumpa Lahiri Picador ISBN: 978-1035017577 224pp. For a little over a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri has...
M y bookshelf is an aesthetic nightmare. Far from being a picturesque Zoom backdrop, it is a cluttered space, a shanty settlement of books of all...