Category: Coming of Age

The Clothes On Their Backs – Linda Grant

Posted on September 25, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Vivien Kovacs is on a search to reveal the truth to the secrets kept from her by her timid Hungarian refugee parents ♥ “Two Jewish brothers are at the heart of this novel. One escapes Hungary prior to the war, marries… Continue Reading “The Clothes On Their Backs – Linda Grant”

Category: Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Female Experience, Historical Fiction, Holocaust fiction, Immigrant story, Literary fiction, Psychological, UK authorTags: ,

The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy

Posted on June 18, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine This novel discusses who should be loved, and how. And how much. It describes how small things affect people’s behaviour and lives ♥ “The God of Small Things details the lives of fraternal twins Rahel and her brother… Continue Reading “The God Of Small Things – Arundhati Roy”

Category: Banned/controversial books, Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Indian fiction, Literary fiction, Political, PsychologicalTags: ,

The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera

Posted on March 7, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy Kahu Apirana is a 12-year-old Maori girl who wants to become the chief of her tribe, but must battle her great-grandfather to make herself heard. ♥ “Maori chief Koro Apirana is angered when his grandson’s wife gives birth… Continue Reading “The Whale Rider – Witi Ihimaera”

Category: Children's fiction, Coming of Age, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Family drama, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Mthyical/folklore, Māori Fiction, NZ Book AwardsTags: , ,

Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides

Posted on February 12, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine Middlesex is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel which chronicles the impact of an intersex gene on three generations of a Greek family. ♥ “Protagonist Calliope (Cal) Stephanides undertakes a rebirth as he comes to terms with his family’s history… Continue Reading “Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides”

Category: Coming of Age, Cultural, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Immigrant story, Mthyical/folklore, Psychological, Pulitzer Prize, Queer, US fictionTags:

Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones

Posted on October 10, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON In the world of Mister Pip, reading Dickens represents salvation for a community ravaged by conflict. ⚈ “Lloyd Jones’s novel is set in a village on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville during the 1990s civil war. Jones covered it as… Continue Reading “Mister Pip – Lloyd Jones”

Category: Booker Prize, Coming of Age, Cultural, Historical Fiction, Kiwi lit, Literary fiction, Political, War storyTags: , ,

Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer

Posted on May 29, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy Everything is Illuminated is the transformation of the author’s own attempts to trace his Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry and the terrible truth about the fate of his extended family who stayed behind in the old country when the Nazis closed… Continue Reading “Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer”

Category: Coming of Age, Contemporary fiction, Historical Fiction, Holocaust fiction, Humour, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Postmodern Literature, US fiction, War storyTags:

To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Posted on April 24, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine Scout Finch is the young daughter of an Alabama town’s principled lawyer, Atticus. She and her brother Jem learn about prejudice and  upholding human dignity through the example of their father who has taken on the legal defence… Continue Reading “To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee”

Category: Classic literature, Coming of Age, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Gothic, Literary fiction, Pulitzer Prize, US fictionTags:

The Catcher In The Rye – J D Salinger

Posted on February 13, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy A native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. During these days he seeks solace in fleeting encounters and wonders about the true meaning… Continue Reading “The Catcher In The Rye – J D Salinger”

Category: Classic literature, Coming of Age, Literary fiction, US fiction, YATags: ,

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