Beloved by Toni Morrison

May 15, 2015 by Christina

Fiction — print. Vintage, 2008. Originally published 1987. 324 pgs. Library copy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1988, this tale focuses on Sethe, a young salve who escaped to Ohio to join her mother-in-law (although her marriage to Halle was not legally binding) and her three other children, and the young daughter named Denver that Sethe was pregnant with during her escape. Eighteen years after her arrival in Ohio, she and her youngest daughter, Denver, live together in […]

Categories: 2015 Reads, Classics, Classics Club, Fiction, Nobel Prize, North America, Pulitzer Prize, United States • Tags: Toni Morrison

Suspended Sentences by Patrick Modiano

April 8, 2015 by Christina

Fiction – print. Translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Yale University Press, 2014. 213 pgs. Library copy. Like many who read solely in English, the announcement that Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature left me a bit confounded. I have never heard of the author and never, to my recollection, seen a review for his work on one of the many book blogs I religiously read. Journalists and bloggers alike blamed the lack of awareness for his […]

Categories: 2015 Reads, Europe, Fiction, France, French, Genocide, Holocaust, Nobel Prize, Short Stories, Translated • Tags: Patrick Modiano