The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami – a detailed book review
Haruki Murakami’s The City and Its Uncertain Walls feels like a book written late in a writer’s life, not because it is tired, but because it is saturated with old…
The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, a detailed review
Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves is one of the most luminous and deceptively simple novels in modern Japanese fiction. It is a story that combines youthful innocence, elemental courage…
High Tide by Hywel Pinto, a detailed review
Hywel Richard Pinto’s High Tide: Trust Not What The Tide Brings In is a novel that draws its strength from the seamless convergence of crime, historical intrigue, political undercurrents, and…
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain, a detailed book review
In the vast literary landscape of Mark Twain’s imagination, The Prince and the Pauper often feels like the child dressed a little too neatly for the carnival. Unlike the raw…
The Stranger by Albert Camus, a detailed review
Albert Camus’s The Stranger stands as one of the most enduring literary articulations of existential and absurdist thought, distilled through the eyes and actions of Meursault, a man whose radical…
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, a detailed review
Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance stands as one of the most powerful literary achievements of the late 20th century. This novel captures the fragility of human dignity against the backdrop…
Middlemarch by George Eliot, a detailed review
George Eliot’s Middlemarch, published serially between 1871 and 1872, stands as one of the towering achievements of Victorian literature—a novel of such intellectual depth, psychological insight, and social scope that it…
The Hidden Hindu Book 1 by Akshat Gupta, a detailed review
Akshat Gupta’s The Hidden Hindu is an ambitious fusion of mythology, science fiction, and thriller, weaving together ancient Hindu cosmology with a futuristic interrogation narrative. The novel follows Om Shastri, a mysterious…
The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a detailed review
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Beautiful and Damned, published in 1922, stands as a realistic exploration of the Jazz Age, a term Fitzgerald himself coined to describe the decadent, post-World War I…
Legacy of the Lost Words by Ashwini Pratham, a detailed review
Ashwini Pratham’s Legacy of the Lost Words is an enlightening and revealing journey of love, loss, and redemption, weaving together the past and present in a narrative that resonates with quiet…
Kapardi by Kolhapur Ramamurthy – Review
Kolhapur Ramamurthy’s Kapardi is a tour de force in contemporary Indian fiction, masterfully intertwining myth, mystery, espionage, and geopolitics into a gripping narrative. The novel is a thought-provoking exploration of…
Mystical Palimpsest: A Collection of Two Novellas by Manjima Misra Book Review
In my long years as a reader, I have come across many sophisticated themed books by very sensible authors. Manima Misra’s book, a collection of two novellas, is one such…