The book somehow endures in the imagination, just as its inviolable hero does looking fate in the eye.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, April 15, 2012 8:52 IST
Monochromatic tones with a narrative dryness does little to attract the devotion of the reader.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, April 1, 2012 13:10 IST
It is Kiran Khalap’s suggestion in this hard-hitting novel that there are many roads to this answer, but none of them are easy.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, March 25, 2012 12:15 IST
The book opens with an important warning to women who meddle with politics, placing the 17-year-old heroine Jacquetta at the trial of Joan of Arc.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:00 IST
Chuck Palahniuk’s Hell is like nothing you’ve imagined yet after reading Damned it’s hard to imagine it otherwise.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, January 29, 2012 8:30 IST
Between Lives is not so much a 'haunting tale of love and redemption,' (as its blurb suggests) as much as an engagement with the past that is at times substantial, at others willfully tenuous.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, December 18, 2011 11:45 IST
In Julian Barnes’ The Sense Of An Ending, a retired old man digs through his memories and finds that his past isn’t what it used to be.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, October 16, 2011 8:00 IST
Surprisingly, for a writer of Hollinghurst’s talent, he leaves us with little more.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, October 9, 2011 6:00 IST
The Last Song... is a notable debut that unfortunately remains, like its opening line, colourfully poised, but not committed to action.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, October 2, 2011 7:00 IST
Gleeful and sad in equal measure, high on spirit, low on sugar, this is the dark chocolate of chick-lit.
Section: Lifestyle | Sunday, August 14, 2011 13:30 IST
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