Mark Haddon is known for his book, the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. What do you get when you mix two families that barely know one another in a century farmhouse in the English countryside. This includes, of course, a saucy fashionista teenage girl and a brooding young teenage boy.
Entertaining and insightful, a great read.
Booker prize winning novel is a true gem. If you love an old fashioned western with the rich land barons and the new “law” persecuting the poor farmers and ranchers, then this novel is for you.
Excerpt from author’s site:
To his own people, the lowly class of ordinary Australians, the bushranger is a hero, defying the authority of the English to direct their lives. Indentured by his bootlegger mother to a famous horse thief (who was also her lover), Ned saw his first prison cell at 15 and by the age of 26 had become the most wanted man in the wild colony of Victoria, taking over whole towns and defying the law until he was finally captured and hanged. Here is a classic outlaw tale, made alive by the skill of a great novelist. Sample the novel HERE
Peter Carey writes an extraordinary story of art, intrique and murder. Carey has the uncanny ability to create two completely different points of view with the two brothers in the novel, Michael Butcher and his younger brother Hugh.
Excerpt from author’s site:
Michael “Butcher” Boone is an ex-“really famous” painter, now reduced to living in a remote country house and acting as caretaker for his younger brother, Hugh. Alone together they’ve forged a delicate equilibrium, a balance instantly destroyed when a mysterious young woman named Marlene walks out of a rainstorm and into their lives. Beautiful, smart, and ambitious, she’s also the daughter-in-law of the late great painter Jacques Liebovitz. Soon Marlene sets in motion a chain of events that could be the making–or the ruin–of them all.
You can sample the book HERE
Abraham Verghese writes a compelling novel about two brothers and their life and death stuggles together. From the author’s web site:
The story is a riveting saga of twin brothers, Marion and Shiva Stone, born of a tragic union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother’s death in childbirth and their father’s disappearance, and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution.But it’s love, not politics — their passion for the same woman — that will tear them apart and force Marion to flee his homeland and make his way to America, finding refuge in his work at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him, wreaking havoc and destruction, Marion has to entrust his life to the two men he has trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him
You can read the first chapter HERE
Toni Morrison writes a Nobel Prize winning visceral novel about what it was really like to survive slavery in the deep South and live after the Civil War. Read this novel if you want to know the truth.
Excerpt:
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees, drawn up; holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship’s, smooths and contains the rocker. It’s an inside kind – wrapped tight like a skin. Then there is a loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive, on its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one’s own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.
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