Eric Enno Tamm – The Horse that Leaps Through Clouds
Author Eric Enno Tamm follows the footsteps of a 1900s spy across Central Asia and China.
Category: book reviews
Esi Edugyan – Half-Blood Blues
Jazz musicians of mixed nationalities and ethnicities struggle to survive Nazi Berlin and occupied Paris. Decades later, the survivors still face the consequences of their choices.
Gene Gant – The Thunder in his Head
For Kyle, life is a series of misunderstandings and hard fought conclusions. Gant’s debut effort is definitely a bold step in the genre and is, in fact, an accurate portrayal of the erratic nature of a teenager growing into his own skin.
George R.R. Martin – A Dance with Dragons
The intrigue and destruction of A Song of Ice and Fire continues with the best installment since A Game of Thrones.
Han Ong – Fixer Chao
A bitter Filipino-American gay man exploits Orientalism for revenge and monetary gain.
Haruki Murakami – After Dark
In After Dark, Murakami masterfully concocts a tale of everyday minutiae with a healthy splash of fantastical suspense, topped off with a twist of hard-boiled crime, and garnished with some supernatural angst – shaken, not stirred.
Haruki Murakami – Norwegian Wood (Tokio Blues)
Norwegian Wood (or Tokio Blues, in Spanish) tells the non-chronological story of Watanabe Toru, who remembers Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend in high school, who ended up killing himself. It deals with the aftermath of the suicide and their lives pre- and post-suicide.
Haruki Murakami – South of the Border, West of the Sun
Al Sur de la Frontera, al Oeste del Sol tells the story of Hajime, who meets with a childhood friend he hasn’t seen in the last 25 years. Her name is Shimamoto, and Hajime is contemplating leaving his wife and daughters to be with her.
Haruki Murakami – Sputnik Sweetheart
Otherwise known as SUPU-TONIKU no Koibito, Sputnik, mi Amor, or Sputnik Sweetheart, it tells the story of three people: the narrator, a primary school teacher who is in love with Sumire — a young woman trying to become a novelist — who falls in love with a married older woman named Myu, who is unable to love her back.
