Category: Historical Fiction
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: Free Range Bookclub 2008
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy A girl’s half-innocent mistake ruins the lives of those around her, and she spends the rest of her life attempting to atone. The mistake comes in the form of viewing her 9-year-old cousin being assaulted and making presumptions on who… Continue Reading “Atonement – Ian McEwan”
Category: Booker Prize, Family drama, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Psychological, UK author, Unreliable Narrator, War storyTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2007, Ian McEwan
READ FOR BOOKERTHON In this novella a newly married couple reflect on their pasts and as a result question their marriage while honeymooning on Chesil Beach. ⚈ “The opening line of On Chesil Beach sums up the rest of the content: ‘They were young, educated,… Continue Reading “On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan”
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”
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy A renegade Czech army unit is stranded in a community of religious fanatics in a small, remote town in Siberia. ⚈ “The People’s Act of Love is set in 1919 in Yasyk, Siberia, a small town on the… Continue Reading “The People’s Act Of Love – James Meek”
Posted on August 7, 2007
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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Dinah, daughter of Jacob and sister of Joseph, is a minor character in the Bible, but the author has given her a voice in The Red Tent. ⚈ “The Red Tent tells the story of the biblical character Dinah,… Continue Reading “The Red Tent – Anita Diamant”
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel This seemingly simple story of a Japanese man whose cat runs away is anything but. It is a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II and… Continue Reading “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami”
Category: Contemporary fiction, Historical Fiction, Japanese, Literary fiction, Magical Realism, Metafiction, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Surreal, Translated, War storyTags: Free Range Bookclub 2007, Haruki Murakami
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”
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel The Blind Assassin is a book within a book within a book and opens with the following sentence: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove her car off a bridge’. It has four interweaving narratives,… Continue Reading “The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood”
Category: Booker Prize, Canadian Author, Family drama, Female Experience, Feminism, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Metafiction, Political, Psychological, Science Fiction, Unreliable NarratorTags: Booker Prize, Free Range Bookclub 2007, Margaret Atwood
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