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A sensational story of a teenage girl in French Indochina and her affair with a Chinese man as a social oddity not only because of the difference between their ages but also the bizarre social status of a wealthy Chinese man and a destitute French girl. Based on her own childhood experience in Vietnam, Duras however did not complete this story until she turned 60 years old when she already recognized as a great writer globally.

A novel wittingly tells about the path taken by the depressed wife of a successful doctor and by the way talks about the controversial Indian meditating camps extremely fascinating to westerners. Updike, one of the most eminent contemporary writers in the US, is admired by his humor that does not compromise his academic achievement.

In the ugliness of war, a naive young man finally understands that glory, honor or sacrifice are empty words. Everyone in a war is trapped in advances without strategies, retreats without dignity and valor without reason.

Ernest Hemingway received Pulitzer Prize in 1953 and Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954.

An audacious plot of history that is constituted largely by selfishness of human beings.......

Doris Lessing is the 2007 Nobel Prize Literature Laureate.

When the seed of inequality is planted in a society, then everyone, black or white, high or low, rich or poor, is destined to be victimized.

J.M. Coetzee is the 1999 Nobel Prize Recipient of Literature.

With very complicated feelings to black people, with the past American historical incidents of slavery and civil war haunting in their lives throughout the first half of the 19th century, Faulkner marvelously wrote the lives of low people in the South. One hardly images it's the mistakes they made, the crimes they committed and the stupidity they have borne throughout their lives constitute this "Masterpiece".

William Faulkner was the Nobel Laureate of 1949.

Unlike the romantic movie, this book is actually a witty, sarcastic story about the pretensious Victorian people.

Virginia Woolf's very exciting story, smart and sardonic writing.............
"Orlando" was dedicated to Woolf's lover Vita and the personage of Orlando was greatly based on her. As a female writer and a lesbian in her time, Woolf has been deemed as an icon by many feminists, however, her works have transcended such issues. The brilliant writing with unparalleled imagination brings pure pleasure of literature.

Very enjoyable reading.........