WRITERS

THE WATER MARGIN – Classic Chinese novel, by Shi Nayan

Published in the 14th century, The Water Margin introduced the vernacular form and style which the others would adhere to.…

8 years ago

LEAVE ME ALONE, NOVEL BY CHENGDU – Romance, by Murong Xuecun

Leave me alone, novel of Chengdu (historically, Chengdu has been the center of China’s food culture, and is famous for its…

8 years ago

THE INMOST SECRETS OF LOVE – Søren Kierkegaard: Works of Love

His early work was written under various pseudonyms. He was born in a Spring day of 1813, to an affluent…

8 years ago

CONTEMPORARY CHINESE NOVELS – Summer of Betrayal, by Hong Ying

Hong Ying is easily one of China’s best-known authors internationally. She was born in Chongqing on September day of 1962,…

8 years ago

DOGGY MEMOIR – The Book of Joshua, by Tanya Mendonsa

This book is like having the best of good times with old friends, except that in this case, many of…

8 years ago

CONTEMPORARY INDIAN LITERATURE – The pleasure can not wait, to Tishani Doshi novel

A strange family, a pleasant story of a family "out of line", in the throes of love, death and indissoluble…

8 years ago

ALPHABET SOUP FOR LOVERS – Romance, by Anita Nair

Strange is that this novel - with short chapters and an external point of view - tells the daily life…

8 years ago

INDIAN CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE – The Unwaba Revelations, novel by Samit Basu

Samit Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of…

8 years ago

THREE SUMMERS – Novel, Margarita Liberaki

Three sisters are living - over three summers - the transition from adolescence to maturity, a journey filled with love…

8 years ago

FROM A DISTANT TIME – The Canzoniere, by Francesco Petrarca

From medieval to Renaissance time, the poets are maintained within two expressive strands: love in the service of a woman…

8 years ago