Tag: Family
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‘We Were Girls Together’; A Review of My Brilliant Friend
Welcome to the last book review of the semester! This week I read My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante, and I am so happy this was the last book. It is a coming-of-age book (so on brand for this class) about two girls in a poor neighbourhood in Naples. The story starts with an older…
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Life with No Death? (Or should I say death)
A thought experiment of a book, Jose Saramago’s Death with Interruptions was an interesting read. The book starts on New Year’s Day, just as the clock strikes twelve when no one dies anymore. The novel explores how different systems and industries deal with this problem. The novel explores the social aspect, with the government, monarchy,…
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12 Years Isn’t That Bad, Right? – The Lover
By far the shortest and most uncomfortable read at this point in the semester, The Lover by Marguerite Duras is a novel about the clandestine relationship between a 27-year-old man and a 15-year-old girl. The prose in this book is beautifully written, as an autobiography with Duras recalling her time in Saigon. She captures the…
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What it Means to Have Nada
Nada, or Nothing when translated from Spanish, is a heart-wrenching, dramatic novel by Carmen Laforet that details a family’s life in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. Laforet details the class divide, what it means to go hungry, and different kinds of love. We follow Andrea, a student, navigating her strange family and different…
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