Category: Psychological

Disgrace – J M Coetzee

Posted on March 26, 2008 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel A South African professor loses everything and takes refuge on his daughter’s farm on the Eastern Cape as he seeks redemption.  ♥ “David Lurie is a disgraced professor who leaves behind his university and city life in Capetown… Continue Reading “Disgrace – J M Coetzee”

Category: Booker Prize, Cultural, Family drama, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, South AfricanTags: ,

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:

Atonement – Ian McEwan

Posted on November 20, 2007 by

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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: , ,

The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro

Posted on October 30, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel Ryder, a famous pianist, arrives in a European city to perform a concert. However, he appears to have lost most of his memory and finds his new environment surreal and dreamlike. As both hero and anti-hero, he wades… Continue Reading “The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro”

Category: Absurdist, Experimental fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, Surreal, UK author, Unreliable NarratorTags:

On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan

Posted on October 12, 2007 by

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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”

Category: Booker Prize, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Psychological, UK authorTags: , ,

Darkmans – Nicola Barker

Posted on October 5, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON A jester haunts this book, possessing the characters at inconvenient moments. They are a collection of interesting folk living in Ashby, England. An erratic, embitted old man; a drug dealer; a chiropodist with mysterious bruises; a man with schizophrenia; a boy building… Continue Reading “Darkmans – Nicola Barker”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Experimental fiction, Ghost story, Humour, Literary fiction, Psychological, Surreal, UK authorTags: ,

Animal’s People – Indra Sinha

Posted on September 25, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON In 1984 Union Carbide released 40 tonnes of lethal gas from its pesticide factory into the city of Bhopal in India, killing thousands and contaminating drinking water. Indra Sinha writes of this atrocity in Animal’s People, replacing Bhopal with the fiction city… Continue Reading “Animal’s People – Indra Sinha”

Category: Booker Prize, Cultural, Environmental fiction, Indian fiction, Literary fiction, Political, Postmodern Literature, Psychological, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

The Gathering – Anne Enright

Posted on September 15, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Liam Hegarty has drowned himself a river. He is one of 12 siblings who all like to drink, though he was afflicted more than the rest. His family, a large, Irish kin, come together for the funeral. His sister Veronica narrates events,… Continue Reading “The Gathering – Anne Enright”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Domestic Fiction, Family drama, Irish, Literary fiction, Psychological, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid

Posted on September 10, 2007 by

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READ FOR BOOKERTHON Over one night, a Pakistani man tells an American stranger about his love affair with a woman and his forced abandonment of America post 911. The resulting chaos of 911, especially for men of his ethnicity, causes Changez to abandon his wish… Continue Reading “The Reluctant Fundamentalist – Mohsin Hamid”

Category: Booker Prize, Contemporary fiction, Cultural, Immigrant story, Political, Psychological, Unreliable NarratorTags: ,

The People’s Act Of Love – James Meek

Posted on August 28, 2007 by

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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”

Category: Adventure, Historical Fiction, Literary fiction, Political, Psychological, Russian Fiction, War storyTags:

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