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The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru

My reading update will come, um, later. This one first.
I’ve been reading a lot about Britain lately, or at least novels set in Britain and its former colonies. The Impressionist traces the life of Pran Nath, boy with British and Indian blood, with his attempts to survive the societies that are alternately seduced and repulsed [...]

Pig Tales by Marie Darrieussecq

This novel succeeds in becoming both hilarious and sinister, a piece of social commentary disguised as an exercise in WTF. It begins with the story of an unemployed girl who gets hired in an exclusive Parisian perfume store by giving sexual favors to the shop director. She is then subjected to various acts of perversion by the [...]

Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

I’ve finished reading Dashiell Hammett’s Red Harvest last week but I only got around to blogging about it today. *sigh* I really have to commit myself in doing this thing. Anyway, the novel itself was enjoyable up until the last quarter of it when a plot twist completely threw me off. I won’t reveal much [...]

A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster’s A Room With a View is an unexpected romance. I’m not just talking about the plot itself, which revolves around the coming of age and sensual awakening of a young young British woman during her first visit to Italy. By romance, I’m talking about the act of reading the novel itself: I unexpectedly fell in love [...]