![]() Their journey is accompanied by the voice of their younger brother, Dao, a lost soul who speaks from the hinterland between the dead and the living. Young orphan siblings Anh, Thanh and Minh flee their village, first to Hong Kong, making their way as refugees towards the uninviting landscape of Thatcher's Britain. Vulture agrees, describing Cauley as "one of the smartest and funniest writers working today, and this novel is a chance for fans to spend even more time with her cutting critiques of the flaws in American culture." (LB)īased on her own mother's story, and interweaving real historical events with fiction, Cecile Pin's debut novel begins in 1978, three years after the last US troops have left Vietnam. "Learn her name, because Cauley is one of the funniest writers at work today, period," says the Los Angeles Times. What follows is a half-joking exploration of capitalism, gun ownership, and what it takes to survive in the modern world as a black American. In the Survivalists, Aretha, a lawyer, moves in with her coffee-entrepreneur boyfriend, Aaron, and his doomsday-prepping housemates. The New York Times says: "George shows the details and scope of life with such confidence and joie de vivre, it's easy to forget she's a first-time novelist." (RL) A coming-of-age story about family, relationships and identity, Maame, writes The Washington Post, "isn't always an easy story to read, but is always told with grace and compassion". ![]() Maddie, nicknamed "Maame", is a twenty-something Londoner with Ghanaian parents, who forgoes the regular trials of a 25-year-old existence as the primary caregiver to her father, who has Parkinson's. Jessica George's debut novel became an instant NYT bestseller when it was published earlier this year favourable comparisons have been made with another publishing sensation, Candice Carty-Williams's Queenie, from 2019. "Although these characters are imperfect, you'll fall in love with them anyway and you'll want to know how they turn out once the end of the book is reached." (LB) "What is impressive about the work is that it treats rich people as fallible human beings," says Medium. One was born into the wealth, one has married into it, and one wants to give it away. The debut novel by Jenny Jackson explores generational wealth and privilege in forensic detail, following three women who are part of the super-wealthy Stockton clan, in leafy Brooklyn Heights, New York. ![]() "Marvellous – clever, funny and brilliantly well observed," is how India Knight describes Pineapple Street in The Sunday Times. Shy is Porter's best, says The Telegraph, since his acclaimed 2015 debut, Grief is a Thing with Feathers, "an act of humanity and grace, heightened by its distinctive form and artistry." According to the iNewspaper, it is "a dazzling bolt of prose in the long night of our times". Its hero is 15-year-old Shy, who we encounter as he walks away from Last Chance, a home for troubled youth, with his pockets full of rocks. (LB)įrom the author of Lanny (2019) and The Death of Francis Bacon (2021), Porter's fourth book is another slight volume of experimental, poetic prose. "Her characters are deeply flawed but you can't help but root for them." The Guardian praises Catton as a "novelist of lavish technical gifts who addresses herself to the world, broadly and richly conceived." Birnam Wood is, says the review, "another virtuoso performance: elaborately plotted, richly conceived, enormously readable". "Catton is not just a master at spinning a web of competing philosophies, " says. Eco-activism meets staggering affluence when the young members of an environmental rights group end up being entangled with a billionaire drone manufacturer. (RL)Įleanor Catton won the Booker Prize in 2013 for her novel The Luminaries, and the New Zealand author's latest offering, witty thriller Birnam Wood, has also been highly acclaimed. In this novel, Rushdie has created "an alternative Mahabharata", writes The Guardian, "an elaborate founding myth from the bare bones of history". Kampana's fortune, over centuries, becomes interwoven with that of the great empire of Bisnaga, the "victory city" of the title. Its heroine is a grief-stricken nine-year-old girl, Pampa Kampana, who is instructed by a goddess to create equality for women in a patriarchal world. The 15th novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses and Quichotte, Victory City, described by The New Yorker as "immensely enjoyable", is an era-spanning epic that begins in 14th-Century southern India.
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