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Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Anita Mathias — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:28:00 +0000

Today’s Guardian Review of a novel which mesmerized me when I first read it to the exclusion of everything else. I must re-read it. Rereading: Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak knew that Doctor Zhivago was explosive. But a new translation to mark the 50th anniversary of the author’s death loses much of its force, argues […]

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The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

Anita Mathias — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 18:34:00 +0000

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroThis novel is a truly astonishing act of ventriloquism. Ishiguro, doomed to be a perpetual outsider in England, by virtue of race, has used the outsider’s gifts of ventriloquism and distance to produce an extraordinary study of aspects of the English.Stevens, the perfect English butler, looks back on a life […]

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Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis Bernieres

Anita Mathias — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 15:13:00 +0000

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis Bernieres We listened to the opening chapters of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis Bernieres yesterday. What a captivating opening, and how well it drags you into the story. I was enchanted by the exotic setting, the close attention to character, the wry narratorial humour, the polysyllabic Latinate words which added […]

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