books about: prize     books:       Suite Francaise374 reviews Irene Nemirovsky Vintage, 2007 Unfinished masterpiece Suite Francaise sat on my permanent "mountain" of waiting-to-be-read books for about a year, unopened. Had I only known... The Holocaust claimed the lives of innumerable people. Irene Nemirovsky was among them. She died at Auschwitz a year after writing the first two novels (out of intended five) belonging to Suite Francaise. "Storm in June" and "Dolce" were re-discovered decades after she ...             Bridge of Sighs: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)126 reviews Richard Russo Vintage, 2008 Great selection for a book discussion group This is another Russo novel featuring well-rounded characters is realistic situations. There is hope, despair, humor and fine observations of everyday life throughout the wonderful novel. A great read and a good choice for a book discussion group.             Loving Frank: A Novel176 reviews Nancy Horan Ballantine Books, 2008 Loving Frank Great book! You just have to read it. The ending is so unexpected that it shocks you. I guess my biggest surpise (besides the ending) was the time that it took place. Today we would think nothing of the type of life style that they lived in, but for the time in history in which this took place took me by surprise. A must read.             Blindness (Harvest Book)360 reviews Jose Saramago Harvest Books, 1999 the white sickness Only an author of Nobel stature could create such a compelling story about such a bleak situation. In this unnamed place, the blind citizens are reduced to short descriptions, no names. They are written of as an image perhaps the last image someone had of them before blindness struck. Here is the girl with the dark glasses, the first blind man, the boy with the squint. Readers go on a ...             One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)52 reviews Gabriel Garcia Marquez Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 Garcia Marquez is great! Gabriel Garcia Marquez has written many novels over the years, but I have had the privilege to read only two. This book is written in the style of magical realism, so you have to be very open minded about the creative and surrealistic characters. It's a wonderful, classic book from a great Latin American author.             Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion: Investor's Business Daily Pulitzer Prize-Winning Editorial Cartoonist13 reviews Michael Ramirez Wiley, 2008 Ramirez Sets the Bar While many with hard-to-open-minds think Michael Ramirez merely sits "at" a bar, the truth is that he actually raises it sky high. His artistry is clean and eloquent...but the real skill is in how those crafted lines draw you in and make you think. Art and words combine for a potent one-two punch to the cranium that make you laugh, want to cry, and always think. It's about time he's put a ...             The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay596 reviews Michael Chabon Picador, 2001 The Most Super of All Powers A beautiful book about Sammy and Joe, two cousins who end up writing and drawing comic books together, the Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay is a staggering tale of dedication, commitment, human frailty, perseverance, loyalty, and the many faces of the most powerful of all super powers, love. it shows the power of the love and appreciation of art, the power of family, the power of ...             Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)1102 reviews John Steinbeck Penguin, 2002 One of the most popular books in American Literature-and for good reason! This wonderful book is one of the most popular books written by Nobel prize winner-John Steinbeck. It is also probably one of the most popular books in American Literature. Set during The Great Depression,The story is about two migrant farm workers-George Milton(who is a cynical man) and Lennie Small(who is very big,strong but mentally disabled and reliant on George to look after him) and ...             The Gathering (Man Booker Prize)126 reviews Anne Enright Grove Press, Black Cat, 2007 Graceful & Imaginative I'm not surprised that this book won the Booker Prize. Enright has a superior command of the language. She creates fluid yet surprising prose, moving between real and imagined events, past and present with astounding grace and skill. This book is a surreal meditation on family--mother love, sister love, craziness, memory, and in particular the way one generation impacts the next.             The Road (Oprah's Book Club)1585 reviews Cormac McCarthy Vintage Books, 2007 Riveting, Spare, and Great This is a great book that is also an absorbing and easy read. The brutal and brilliant simplicity of the book is remarkable. McCarthy imagines the world after the nuclear apocalypse in which everything is stripped away and then asks, "what's left?" In part, the answer is the kind of evil that is resurgent in McCarthy's other books and that is best captured by Golding in "Lord of the Flies" ...             The Reluctant Fundamentalist115 reviews Mohsin Hamid Harvest Books, 2008 IS AMERICA READY FOR CHANGEZ? This is the ultimate "the philosophy of East versus West" novel and although I was disturbed and, at times, resentful of the portrait of America and Americans as portrayed by the narrator of this tale, I was also enthralled and unable to stop reading. The story is related in the form of a monologue between the chronicler, Changez, and an anonymous American stranger who he meets quite by ...             The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)460 reviews Pearl S. Buck Pocket Books, 2005 Pearl S. Buck's masterpiece...'The Good Earth' This is Pearl S. Buck's stunning Pulitzer prize winning novel, 'The Good Earth'; it was written in 1931. The book itself is easy to read, written in plain language using simple words to describe people, places and things. No dictionary or thesaurus needed here. This is not only the story of Wang Lung and his wife O-lan (by arranged marriage), but also in a sense, a historical novel that ...             Half of a Yellow Sun71 reviews Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Anchor, 2007 I absolutely loved it! This book is great. If I wasn't so anti-violence and war I could have easily finished this book in a day. A great read for all Nigerians, especially young Igbos.             The Savage Detectives: A Novel48 reviews Roberto Bolano Picador, 2008 A masterpiece The Savage Detectives, the Mexican novel of a Chilean writer that spent his last years of life in Barcelona, is one of the few masterpieces that Latin America has produced during the last years. The language skills, the rhythm, the story, the characters, everything is first class literature in this "Looking for a lost Poetess" novel. In spite of the high quality values of his next (posthumous) ...             Desert (Nobel Prize Literature 2008)1 review J.M.G. Le Clezio French & European Pubns, 1985 A novel about freedom? This book makes everybody dream who reads it. Written in two different time areas set up in a very interesting way, it tracks the life of African nomads at the beginning of the century through a young descendant of this tribe, Lalla. Lalla lives a childhood in a poor environment, but she is free and can grow up wildly following the shepherd boys into the desert. It is a country, where speech ...             Mister Pip54 reviews Lloyd Jones Dial Press Trade Paperback, 2008 Popeye "Everyone called him Popeye." Thus begins Mister Pip, an eloquently written story about how profoundly literature can influence lives. As Popeye evolves into Mr. Pip, the personalities and character traits of the islanders also emerge. Mother and daughter, war and resistance, husband and wife, civilization and nature, life and death, black and white, nurturance and abandonment - these are ...             Empire Falls477 reviews Richard Russo Vintage, 2002 Thoughtful On the surface this is a book about an average guy who is stuck in a rut in an average small town. But when you delve deeper, you see that the book is about how pivotal choices and events shape who we are and where we end up in life. The characters in this book are memorable, realistic, and well developed. They are masterfully woven together to create an engaging story. However, the story ...             American Pastoral219 reviews Philip Roth Vintage, 1998 Recovery impossible From reading through various reviews on here, I imagine my opinion on this book is shared by the majority but there are still many who disliked it very various reasons. I was born after all the events of the 40's, 50's, 60's, and seventies took place. This book was a giant eye-opener for me and taught me more than any textbook or college course. This was one of those books that so touched me ...             Banker To The Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty77 reviews Muhammad Yunus PublicAffairs, 2008 A book about poverty and Triumph This books shows us that the lack of access to credit for the poorest of the poor is possibly as bad as lack of food. Without some access to credit they have absolutely no chance to ever get out of the revolving situation that will absorb then and their children. It's a vicious cycle of poverty that will be perpetuated unless they are given a chance to break it. And they all want to break it. ...             Then We Came to the End: A Novel213 reviews Joshua Ferris Back Bay Books, 2008 better in retrospection I came to the book after reading an excellent short story by Ferris in the New Yorker ("The Dinner Party"). However, it took me a while after I finished it to decide whether I liked this novel. The use of the first person plural is different, but I don't think that is what makes the book really unusual. Inconsequential stories of everyday office life are transformed into prose that is ...              search for books adventures, american, blindness, business, cartoonist, centennial, classics, contemporaries, detectives, edition, editorial, enriched, everyone, francaise, fundamentalist, gathering, hundred, investor, kavalier, literature, micro-lending, opinion, pastoral, prize-winning, pulitzer, reluctant, solitude, steinbeck, vintage, winning books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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