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After my 45-year-old aunt’s appetite for personality development got seemingly satiated by this 98 page piece of very popular cheese, and in her euphoria that followed, she bought my dad a copy which somehow ended up with me.
Khaled Hosseini- an Afghan-born American novelist. With its very first novel named “The Kite Runner” made a grand entry in the world of literature. It received the South African Boeke Prize in 2004. It was the first 2005 best seller in the United States, according to Nielsen BookScan.
Mehbod Seraji has poetized the story by portraying the turmoil stage in the heart of Iran’s capital Tehran in 1970s. It is the rooftop of a seventeen year old boy- Pasha Shahed’ (the narrator) house, the tallest in the neighbourhood of Tehran where he spends blistering summer in pursuit of a rational argument,
If any book can claim to be Eduardo Galeano’s biography, it would be this. Days and Nights of Love and War is a mixture of autobiography and social critique. It is a testimony to Galeano’s loyalty to his unique style of writing which marries fact and fiction even as it combines ferocious passion with kindness and sensitivity.
The author of “The Rozabel Line” rose to popularity with his debut novel, but it was his second novel “Chanakya’s Chant” which made the world turn its attention towards him ! Another winning novel from him is “The Krishna Key”.
For a change, it was when I read the preface that had me thinking toward old-existing unanswered questions right at the beginning of few pages. Author’s words starts for his mother and to some extent are formed and mould out of his mother’s soul.
History is perhaps the most flawed edifice that has been handed down and been added to by successive generations of the world. It works by the magical illusion that it is sacrosanct, unquestionable and impartial.
Tyrant, Blackmailer, Racketeer, Murderer – His influence reaches every niche of the American society, his personality instigating fear among his fellow men as well as outsiders yet demanding a respectable welcome from both friends and fiends.
Like wine that improves as it ages, Agastya’s 24 year old story is still widely read by the young and old and as expected, Agastya makes us smile as we turn the last page of his story.
This beguiling book in spite of being surprisingly short, speaks volumes about Objectivism, the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Written long before her more famous novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, this novella is for readers who like to invest only a little time and yet expect to gain a proper perspective on her philosophy.