“Tinkers” by Paul Harding “Tinkers (2009) is the first novel by American author Paul Harding. The novel tells the tale of George Washington Crosby, a clock repairman, who recounts his life story and his father's struggles with epilepsy to his family on his deathbed. Extracted from wikipedia. See also: http://www.tinkerspulitzer.com/ http://www.revistaarcadia.com/libros/articulo/debut-literario-gana-prio-pulitzer-ficcion-2010/22013 http://artsbeat.blogs. nytimes.com/2010/04/12/the-one-that-got-away/ Selected titles
“The immigrant” by Manju Kapur “Nina is a thirty-year-old English lecturer in New Delhi, living with her widowed mother and struggling to make ends meet. Ananda has recently emigrated to Halifax, Canada; having spent his twenties painstakingly building his career, he searches for something to complete his new life. When Ananda's sister proposes an arranged
“Vile Bodies” by Evelyn Waugh “In the years following the First World War a new generation emerges, wistful and vulnerable beneath the glitter. The Bright Young Things of twenties' Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade. In a quest for
“Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens “Great Expectations is not just a story of big dreams and dramatic setbacks, but essentially, as Chesterton put it, of big hesitations. Pip, a frightened orphan boy, has a terrifying encounter with an escaped prisoner for whom he is forced to procure groceries and a file. Shortly after, he is called
“On Beauty” by Zadie Smith “A college professor in a small, prosperous New England town, Briton Howard Belsey, at fifty-seven, is going through one of his lowest moments in life: his academic future seems definitely stalled and, at home, things go from bad to worse.” Extracted
“William Blake: a selection of poems and letters” “English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Extracted from Wikipedia. See also: http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1475 http://www.emmitsburg.net/archive_list/articles/ce/misc/ drew/blake.htm The selected titles are a sample of the
“Nineteen Eighty-Four” by George Orwell “Is a 1949 dystopian novel by George Orwell about an oligarchical, collectivist society. Life in the Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war, pervasive government surveillance, and incessant public mind control. The individual is always subordinated to the state, and it is in part this philosophy
“Lord of the flies” by William Golding “Lord of the Flies is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning author William Golding. It is about a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.” Extracted from Wikipedia. See also: http://www.bookrags.com/notes/lof/ http://nobelprize.org/educational/literature/golding/ http://www.epdlp.com/escritor.php?id=1767 The titles selected are a
“Heart of darkness and the secret sharer” by Joseph Conrad “The dark places of the human soul – this is the region that Joseph Conrad so brilliantly explores. In the steaming jungles of the Congo or the vast reaches of the sea, it is man's capacity for good and for evil that is his enduring
“The children of men” by PD James “In this astonishing novel, an entirely new departure in her writing, PD James imagines a future England where human infertility has spread like a plague. By the year 2021 no babies have been born for a quarter of a century, not since Year Omega, anywhere in the inhabited