![]() In "The Cement Garden," a group of children are orphanedĪnd bury their mother in the basement. In "The Comfort of Strangers," a pair of middle-class tourists fall prey to a Machiavellian sadist during a trip to Venice. Like so many of the author's stories, "Amsterdam" concerns the sudden intrusion of violent, perverse events into his characters' mundane lives, events that cruelly expose the psychological fault lines running beneath ![]() One can only hope that this small, perfectly fashioned novel - novella, really - will send readers back to the rest of the talented McEwan's oeuvre. Than "The Innocent," his 1990 masterpiece of Cold War suspense. 'Amsterdam' by Ian McEwan Wins Booker Prize (October 28, 1998)Īn McEwan's new novel, "Amsterdam," which won the Booker Prize in Britain this autumn, is a dark tour de force, a morality fable,Ī chilling little horror story, easily read in one enjoyable gulp, "Amsterdam" is by no means McEwan's finest work: It is less ambitious than "Enduring Love" (1998) and "Black Dogs" (1992), and less resonant. ![]() DecemBOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Amsterdam': Dark Tour De Force ![]()
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About the Book Survive the Five offers fans of all ages a chance to revel in the history, lore, and nightmare-worthy narrative of the hit game and collect useful (and entertaining) intel on the origins and importance of the franchises eerie main characters, Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy. ![]() ![]() Umrigar writes not only as an elegant storyteller but as a sharp-eyed reporter, no doubt informed by her experience as a former journalist. Honor adds an element that the author has not addressed before: extreme violence. ![]() Her critically acclaimed novel The Space Between Us told with impeccable delicacy a story of friendship between two women of different backgrounds. Umrigar, an English professor at Case Western Reserve University, has set several of her past novels in this tumultuous India, investigating fraught social issues such as caste and class divides, the lure of fundamentalism and culture clash. It's the unseemly side of the country, blighted by cultural conservatism, poverty, sectarian violence, caste hierarchies and misogyny. This isn't the globalized India of news or the India of IT excellence and an ambitious space mission. It's a searing meditation on the meaning of dignity in a dehumanizing world. ![]() Thrity Umrigar's important new novel Honor isn't an easy read.įrom depictions of casual misogyny to distressing scenes of public shaming, mistreatment and torture, the novel shows the terrifying social forces that strip vulnerable people of dignity and render them animal-like. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And the line between love and hate just might be thin enough to cross… But when a violent Mississippi storm ravages through Magnolia Branch, it unearths feelings Jemma and Ryder didn’t know they had. And their communication is not exactly effective: even a casual hello turns into a yelling match. Jemma can’t stand Ryder’s nauseating golden-boy persona, and Ryder would prefer it if stubborn-headed Jemma didn’t exist. They’re only seventeen-oh, and also? They hate each other. Except Jemma Cafferty and Ryder Marsden have no intention of giving in to their parents’ wishes. So when the families finally have a baby boy and girl at the same time, the perfect opportunity seems to have arrived. Neighbors since the Civil War, the families have shared vacations, holidays, backyard barbecues, and the overwhelming desire to unite their two clans by marriage. In Magnolia Branch, Mississippi, The Cafferty and Marsden families are practically royalty. Jenna and Ryder are far from friends-until a storm stirs up their passion in this contemporary southern romance from New York Times bestselling author Kristi Cook. ![]() ![]() ![]() Henry Prizes and been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories, The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Fiction, and The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories. In 2010, Memory Wall, a collection of stories set on four continents, won the acclaimed Story Prize. His short fiction has also earned him four O. He then released About Grace (2004), his first novel, which was followed by the memoir, Four Seasons in Rome (2007). His first work, The Shell Collector, is a collection of short stories and was a New York Times and Publishers’ Weekly Notable Book of 2002. ![]() ![]() Student Employment, Internships & CareersĪnthony Doerr’s 2014 novel All the Light We Cannot See has won numerous literary awards, including the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. ![]() |