Aranyak: Of the Forest
by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Satarchayan, the narrator of this autobiographical novel first published in India in the late '30s, is not your usual hero: he reminds me of the naive Captain Delano through whose wide, half-seeing ey... (Tom)
Diary of a Film
by Niven Govinden
My glib line on this novel is, "Like Rachel Cusk, if she liked people," but that doesn't really do this book (or the great Cusk) justice. Like Cusk, Govinden, a British novelist hardly known over here... (Tom)
Lizzy and the Cloud
by the Fan Brothers
Taking a cloud home is more complicated than you might think: you have to make sure to water it (but not too much!), be ready for surprise downpours or even thunderstorm tantrums, and give them all th... (Tom)
The Book of Form and Emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Told from dual perspectives—from Benny and from "the Book" itself—young Benny's story begins when his father is killed in a senseless accident and he begins hearing the voices of inanimate objects. Mu... (Anika)