Man Booker 2013 shortlisted books and their reviews
News and Events / October 7, 2013

Booker fever has started! On October 15, a panel of judges will choose the best of English language fiction, from a list that has been called the best in a decade. The competition is tough! Which of these novels are you rooting for? Who will win the Man Booker 2013 prize?

Review : The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Review / October 7, 2013

Author: Eleanor Catton
Publisher: Granta
Year: 2013
ISBN: 9781847084316
Rating: ★★★★½
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It is these devices that make us realize what Catton is attempting (and succeeds at): redefining the genre, kneading and tweaking it, and teasing us at the same time, while holding us in her thrall – in a ‘real’ novel written in Victorian England, the judge’s well-meant, hypocritical euphemisms would likely be used by the author himself.

Review: After Kurukshetra; Three Stories by Mahasweta Devi, Translated by Anjum Katyal
Review / September 26, 2013

Author: Mahasweta Devi
Translated by: Anjum Katyal
Publisher: Seagull Books Pvt Ltd
Year: 2005
ISBN: 9788170462910
Rating: ★★★★½
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“After Kurukshetra” is a collection of three stories, each of which centers around women in the aftermath of the Kurukshetra war from the Mahabharat. Read it to gain new and surprising perspectives on this famous episode in Indian history.