Another Man's wife
“I am your love, but I am not your peace.”
One of the hallmarks of a novelist is the ability to capture the difference between the female and male psyche, especially in matters of love. In the...
Literature - Realistic
The Absentee
Novel published in 1812, a few years after Ireland's incorporation into the United Kingdom. It was common for Irish aristocrats to delegate the management of their estates to others while they lived in...
The Paul Street Boys
It is an excellent young adult novel set in Budapest in 1907. The boys from Paul Street, led by the wise and brave Boka, are determined not to let the fearsome gang from the Botanical Garden take over the...
Strange Journey
Maud Cairnes (Lady Maud Kathleen Cairnes Plantagenet Hastings, England, 1893–1965) wrote a play and three novels. This is her most acclaimed work and achieved notable success when it was published in 1935...
Table for two
Amor Towles surprises us once again with a new book—this time, six short stories and a novella. Once more, Amor Towles masterfully dissects the psychology, desires, and disappointments of endearing...
Clear
Ivar, the only inhabitant of a remote Scottish island, has lived for decades in peaceful isolation, accompanied by a few animals. Until one day in 1843, he finds an unconscious man on the beach. The...
Longbourn
This book aims to be something similar to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, but presenting things from the servants' point of view.
It could be an interesting book if the perspective were actually...
Love for Lydia
The novel is set before the 1929 crash, although no date is given, in an English mining town very similar to the one where the author lived. The plot begins in the mansion of an old, now-ruined aristocratic...
Alone
Mei, a forty-two-year-old woman immersed in an apathetic marriage and recently fired from her job, decides to seek refuge in the house where she grew up, a small farmhouse in the middle of the forest. There...
A Friend of Kafka abd Other Stories
The literary quality of these twenty-one stories by the 1978 Nobel Prize winner is high, with varied plots and settings that unfold in Central Europe —mostly in Poland—, in the United States, and one in...