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Author : Margaret Atwood The one thing I love about books is how diverse each reading experience can get. Some books take you on a thrilling ride keeping you glued to its every page while others tend to play with all kinds of emotions just well enough to make a reader dread the last page…
Author : Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A masterly, haunting new novel from a writer heralded by The Washington Post Book World as “the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe,” Half of a Yellow Sun re-creates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra’s impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the…
Author : Durian Sukegawa, Alison Watts (Translator) This was a beautiful story. I picked up this book on a lazy Saturday morning expecting a wholesome read. Although my initial assumption wasn’t wrong, there’s so much more to this book than what I thought there was. With hardly 200 pages, this is a story revolving around…
Author : Cho Nam-Joo, Jamie Chang (Translator) I honestly don’t know how to put my feelings into words here. Focusing on the difficulties faced by a working woman in South Korea, this book follows Kim Jiyoung from her days as a child up to her life as a mother. I’ve got to admit, the style of…
Author : Etaf Rum Nothing would have ever prepared me for that last chapter. Shifting between the perspectives of three women across different time periods, this is a story of courage, defiance, trauma and hope. Set in a conservative community bound by the shackles of tradition, this book provides an insight into how generational cycles of…
Author : Jesse Q. Sutanto I know I’m very picky about giving books a five star rating but I’m just going to go ahead and give it to this one because I had SO MUCH FUN reading it. Were there times where I felt the plot dragged a little bit? Yes. Did the story exaggerate…
Author : Lee Min-jin Pachinko is a historical fiction novel documenting the life of a Korean family in Japan across four generations throughout the 20th century. For someone who knew very little about Korean history, this book provided an insight into the political dynamics of that period by setting up the plot according to its…
Author : William Andrews I know it’s not a fair comparison but this book felt more brutal than any of the other historical fiction novels I’ve ever read. Besides the fact that the violence in this book was explicitly written, it also expressed the pain of humiliation and shame in so many different ways that…