Category: Unreliable Narrator
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Nadine A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors ♥ Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel details the arrival at Wuthering Heights of a man named Heathcliffe and the close bond he forms with his benefactor’s daughter,… Continue Reading “Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte”
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 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”
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”
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”
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”
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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