Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Birth of Venus by Sara Dunant
Synopsis Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family’s Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind and a talent for drawing, Alessandra is intoxicated by the painter’s abilities. But their [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Synopsis When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn’t happen. In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Synopsis First American Publication This stunning and elegiac novel by the author of the internationally acclaimed Wind-Up Bird Chronicle has sold over 4 million copies in Japan and is now available to American audiences for the first time. It is sure to be a literary event. Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Reading Lolita in Tehran by Dr. Azar Nafisi
Synopsis: Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher named Azar Nafisi secretly gathered seven of her most committed female students to read forbidden Western classics. As Islamic morality squads staged arbitrary raids in Tehran, fundamentalists seized hold of the universities, and a blind censor stifled [...]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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<div class=\"postavatar\"></div> Synopsis Set in an unnamed Caribbean seaport, Garcia Marquez’s extraordinary Love in the Time of Cholera (1988) relates one of literature’s most remarkable stories of unrequited love. “This shining and heartbreaking novel,” Thomas Pynchon wrote in The New York Times Book Review, is one of those few rare works “that can even return [...]
