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The brief novel’s propulsion and effect result from its author’s key understanding of just how far to push her technique to achieve maximum effect.
Though Bhat’s new book is described as her second novel, the individual pieces comprise all the attributes of linked stories.
The Toronto author’s story provides a metaphorical response to a very real history of trauma and violence.
Awad’s latest novel uses allusions to the Bard to tell the story of a woman whose chronic pain is miraculously alleviated.
“Any story, any work of literature, any storytelling endeavour has to be both lighthouse and storm,” El Akkad says.
A breezy, plot-driven book and an abstruse, philosophically dense ontological mystery provide different pleasures for readers.
The novel, which won the 2021 Man Booker International Prize, questions where duty and friendship end and insanity begins.
The novel is among a series of recent thrillers that focus on writers behaving badly.
Huysmans shared his protagonist’s disgust with humanity and longed to create a new kind of literature.
Nominally a hardboiled noir, Hummingbird Salamander is also a cri de coeur about our current ecological crisis.