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Her last short story collection. I don't see myself reading Nuestra parte de noche anytime soon.You mean her last book of short stories or the novel?
Her last short story collection. I don't see myself reading Nuestra parte de noche anytime soon.You mean her last book of short stories or the novel?
You didn't like Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego? I thought it was excellent.Her last short story collection. I don't see myself reading Nuestra parte de noche anytime soon.
As long as it was Jane Austen and not Michael Cunningham, I'd read it! Imagine all those cute, well-behaved little Darcy children and the trouble they could get into. Although if it were 20 years later, I guess they'd likely been teenagers. Hmmm. Maybe even better!Apparently Colm Toibin has written a sequel to his beloved novel Brooklyn. I'm not sure how I feel about this. While I don't have a problem with writers returning to some of their finest previous material, I kind of thought that the story of Eilis Lacey ended perfectly where and when it did. Imagine if Jane Austen gave us a "20 Years Later" novel about how the marriage of Lizzie Bennett and Mr. Darcy unfolded?
That's easy. He ain't Austen (or Woolf either).^And what is your beef with Cunningham?
Oh. (Who knew?)At the risk of stating the obvious, Dave, no one is exactly alike anyone else,
^I just saw an advert on Youtube for Michael Cunningham's The Hours, which they've turned into an opera (playing at the Met). The great Renee Fleming is one of the voices!
I was listening to this podcast yesterday about the Brooklyn sequel, and there Toibin mentioned not particularly liking sequels but in this case he kept seeing images from the new book's opening scene, and he knew it involved Eilis and the people around her, and gradually a story formed in his mind.Apparently Colm Toibin has written a sequel to his beloved novel Brooklyn. I'm not sure how I feel about this. While I don't have a problem with writers returning to some of their finest previous material, I kind of thought that the story of Eilis Lacey ended perfectly where and when it did. Imagine if Jane Austen gave us a "20 Years Later" novel about how the marriage of Lizzie Bennett and Mr. Darcy unfolded?
Indeed, great book. Amazing mix of magical realism, social agenda and surrealistic poetics rooted into Pre-columbian mythology of Mesoamerica.Two years ago Penguin Random House issued a rerelease of Miguel Angel Asturias's novel The President, and now it looks his acclaimed Men of Maize is getting the same treatment:
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Men of Maize by Miguel Ángel Asturias: 9780143138402 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A novel whose time has come: the Nobel Prize–winning author of Mr. President's visionary epic of ecological devastation, capitalist exploitation, and Indigenous wisdom, now available again for its...www.penguinrandomhouse.com
I've been curious about this one for a while, but was put off by it's supposed density and then, later, it's seeming scarcity, so I'll be sure to pick this one up.