Next installment of Tommi Reads the World – we’re in the Bs. Country: BangladeshTitle: BloodAuthor: Sunil GangopadhyayLanguage: BengaliTranslator: Debali Mookerjea-LeonardPublisher: First published in Begali as Rakta by Biswabani Prakashani 1973, translation first published by Juggernaut Books 2020 Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Blood could have served as either my selection from Bangladesh or India. As Gangopadhyay was born inContinue reading “BLOOD – Sunil Gangopadhyay”
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BEKA LAMB – Zee Edgell
Next installment of Tommi Reads the World – we’re in the Bs. Country: BelizeTitle: Beka LambAuthor: Zee EdgellLanguage: EnglishTranslator: NonePublisher: Heinemann Educational Books (1982) While published just after Belize’s independence, Zee Edgell’s Beka Lamb is set in the 1950s. The novel covers mere months in the life of a 14-year-old girl living in a country fightingContinue reading “BEKA LAMB – Zee Edgell”
THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY – Maisy Card
Maisy Card’s debut novel, These Ghosts Are Family ( Simon & Schuster – 3/3/2020), is quite possibly my most favorite read of this crazy year; I don’t typically give stars, but I’m giving this novel an entire galaxy. The novel is told in a fragmented way that brings to mind the oral tradition of story-tellingContinue reading “THESE GHOSTS ARE FAMILY – Maisy Card”
The Conquest – Yxta Maya Murray
The Conquest was published in 2002. Despite a love of multi-cultural literature developing in earnest about that time, I had never heard of the novel or its author, Yxta Maya Murray, until I picked the work up at a used bookstore over a year ago. (Have I mentioned that my TBR pile could easily claimContinue reading “The Conquest – Yxta Maya Murray”
Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss
There are certain novels that have to be savored on your tongue like the frozen custard at Goodberry’s or the sweetened condensed milk drizzled Ro-tii in a country you wonder if you’ll ever see again. Homemade chocolate truffles. Your grandmother’s angel biscuits. Fresh-picked strawberries, warm from the sun. There are tastes we savor in theContinue reading “Kiran Desai – The Inheritance of Loss”
A Girl Named Tommi 