Sept '22 Notable Books: Amit Chaudhuri, Gwendoline Riley, Hanne Ørstavik & More
A recurring series on the most interesting book releases of the month...
Sojourn - Amit Chaudhuri (Sept. 6) - Amit Chaudhuri's Sojourn is a dramatic and disconcerting work of fiction, a book about the present as it slips into the past, a picture of a city and of a troubled mind, a historical novel about an ostensibly post-historical time, a story of haunting.
First Love - Gwendoline Riley (Sept. 13) - Drawing us into the battleground of this marriage, Gwendoline Riley tells a transfixing story of mistakes and misalliances, of helplessness and hostility, in which both husband and wife have played a part.
Ti amo - Hanne Ørstavik (Sept. 13) - A penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss [that's] based in Ørstavik's own experience of losing her Italian husband to cancer.
The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Sept. 20) - The Book of Goose is a haunting story of friendship, art, exploitation, and memory.
We Spread - Iain Reid (Sept. 27) - At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reid’s genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
Sojourn - Amit Chaudhuri (Sept. 6) - Amit Chaudhuri's Sojourn is a dramatic and disconcerting work of fiction, a book about the present as it slips into the past, a picture of a city and of a troubled mind, a historical novel about an ostensibly post-historical time, a story of haunting.
First Love - Gwendoline Riley (Sept. 13) - Drawing us into the battleground of this marriage, Gwendoline Riley tells a transfixing story of mistakes and misalliances, of helplessness and hostility, in which both husband and wife have played a part.
Ti amo - Hanne Ørstavik (Sept. 13) - A penetrating study of passion, suffering, and loss [that's] based in Ørstavik's own experience of losing her Italian husband to cancer.
The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li (Sept. 20) - The Book of Goose is a haunting story of friendship, art, exploitation, and memory.
We Spread - Iain Reid (Sept. 27) - At once compassionate and uncanny, told in spare, hypnotic prose, Iain Reid’s genre-defying third novel explores questions of conformity, art, productivity, relationships, and what, ultimately, it means to grow old.
(Blurbs reproduced verbatim from Goodreads.)
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