This is a fascinating memoir by the Booker Prize-winning author of the novel The God of Small Things.
Arundhati Roy recounts her childhood in India, in a community of Syrian Christians; her complex relationship with her domineering mother; the family’s isolation and poverty; the many odds she had to overcome before becoming a writer.
The Instant New York Times Bestseller • One of People Magazine's Top 10 Books of the Year
"The rare celebrity memoir that's also a literary read. As funny as it is reflective, it shares stories behind Pacino's hardscrabble upbringing, classic films and journey to icon status." —People Magazine
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full
To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975,…
The First Man, an autobiographical novel by Camus, remains unfinished. When Camus was killed in the car accident, the manuscript of this book was found in the car. This is a story of his childhood in the Algerian town by the sea.
It's written with great energy, love of life, and compassion. I read the novel in splendid English translation by David Hapgood.
This biography illuminates the life and legacy of a prominent Russian Jewish writer, Vasily Grossman. Always at the epicenter of events, Grossman (1905–1964) was among the first to depict the Holocaust and the Ukrainian famine. His 1944 article “The Hell of Treblinka” became part of the evidence at Nuremberg.
Grossman’s powerful anti-totalitarian novel Life and Fate likens the Nazis’ crimes against humanity with those of Stalin. Written 1961, Life and Fate, was seized by the KGB. When it emerged posthumously, decades later, it was recognized as the War and Peace of the twentieth century. Grossman’s compassionate prose has the everlasting quality of great art.
