2020
June
Best Short Stories of Anton Chekova
Considered by many as the greatest short story writer the world has seen, Anton Chekhov changed the genre itself with his spare, impressionistic depictions of Russian life and the human condition.... >>
The Forty Rules of Love
Ella Rubenstein is forty years old and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read and report on Sweet Blasphemy, a novel written by a man named Aziz Zahara.. >>
Americanah
Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success,... >>
Animal Dreams
"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown,.. >>
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May
A Russian Doll in China
In this world of international M&A (Merger/Acquisitions) banks and their consulting arms play games of mutual tortuous interference during the buying process. Our hero has to... >>
The Siege of Krishnapur
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their British overlords. This time of convulsion is the subject... >>
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented is a novel by Thomas Hardy. It initially appeared in a censored and serialised version, published by the British illustrated newspaper... >>
The Splendours and Miseries of the Courtesans of Paris
Honoré de Balzac's Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, translated either as The Splendors and Miseries of Courtesans or as A Harlot High and Low, was published in four parts from 1838-1847.. >>
La Peste
We read from a French book. A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, ... >>
Black Diamonds
Wentworth is today a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet just a hundred years ago is was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams - an aristocratic clan whose home and life were fuelled by coal mining... >>
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Three Tenors Sing New York, New York
April
La Seduction; How the French play the Game of Life
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets... >>
Educated
The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seduction—its rules, its pleasures, its secrets... >>
The Story of a Goat
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift from the cosmos. Thus begins the story of Poonachi, the little orphan goat.... >>
En Inde, le confinement le plus gigantesque et le plus punitif de la planète
We read from article in Le Monde, 6 April 2020
Burnt Shadows
Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal... >>
Amadeus
Ambition and jealousy all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival... >>
Il est midi à Pékin; le monde à l'air chinoise
We read from this book.