An Appetite for Books
On my present reading list is The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories (hmmm, you might want to read contemporary short stories, so here, click this link), Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita, Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake and Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.
And since Christmas season is near (yippee!), here’s another addition to my book wishlist (all of which are easily accessible in any local bookstores – yes, I don’t wish for books with freight costs attached.):
Ma Jian’s The Noodle Maker
From Dannyreviews.com
A professional blood donor, thriving on the rewards for his labours, visits his friend the professional writer, who is unenthusiastically facing a commission to write a short novel on the theme of “Learning from Comrade Lei Feng”. They eat dinner and talk, and out come the stories the writer would like to write.These stories are both within the framing story and part of it, with the writer and the blood donor making incidental appearances within them as well as commenting on them. Ranging in length from eight pages to forty, they are dark, visceral tales of love and obsession, of violence and death, presented with a sardonic, unsparing humour…
Ismail Kadare’s The File on H.: A Novel
