Reading List
You know when you are reading an incredible book. As the year gears up for new things, here are a few names to add to your never-ending wishlist for the bibliophile in you.
The Unmapped Country
(And Other Stories)
Author: Ann Quin
Genre: Fiction, Memoir
The Unmapped Country sketches a portrait of an artist as a restless spirit, wandering in unknown spaces. Quin explores the risks and seductions of going over the edge in this new collection of rare and unpublished writing. This outstanding collection of stories puts together Quin’s previous unpublished works, which resonates Quinn’s powerful writing style. Some pieces have a touch of memoir and some are purely fiction. It explores the terrains of psychiatry, mental health and depression in different situations. A perennial struggle between stability and disorder runs throughout the narratives.
An Ordinary Man’s Guide to Radicalism : Growing Up Muslim in India
Author: Neyaz Farooquee
Genre: Memoir
19 September 2008, the Batla House encounter. The author’s first, is about his personal account of that one day that changed the life of a young man from Inderwan Bairam in Bihar’s Gopalganj district. An over-protected childhood, an ambitious migration to Delhi as a young boy for better education, an undisciplined and shiftless adolescence – all of this history is flattened out into one tiny slice of Neyaz Farooquee’s identity: a muslim from Jamia Nagar who lived practically next door to the terrorists who had been killed in the encounter? A potential terrorist himself? Or a normal human being? The undisguised truth about identity and stereotypes, about life in a ghetto, and the small and big disenchantments that make up an ordinary life.
A Century is not Enough
Author: Sourav Ganguly with Gautam Bhattacharya
Genre: Autobiography
One of India’s greatest cricket captains, Sourav Ganguly’s journey has been very dramatic and full of highlights as a captain, as a cricketer, as a mortal. From reinventing the team to making complex decisions, from international victories to the struggles within the team, from unending controversies to his infamous spat with Indian coach Greg Chappell – whose entry was initiated by him, this tale is a journey with many untold stories. A Century is not Enough has it all. He shares his moments of conflicts during his career, his comebacks and the struggles and sacrifices that lead to a win. He walks the reader through all of this and much more. A peak into his life.
The Monk of Mokha
Author: Dave Eggers
Genre: Biography, Travel literature
This is an inspiring story of a fellow San Franciscan and coffee enthusiast Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a Yemeni immigrant who is following his American dream that offers a fresh hope in the times of Donald Trump. Alkhanshali is raised by Yemeni immigrant parents, who travelled to Yemen to learn about the origins of coffee making and is caught up in the civil war. This work marks a remarkable journey of identity, courage, dreams and a circumstantial history of immigration and relative aspects.
Egger’s dedication towards human rights issues and good reportage runs through the story and has a biographical tone to it.
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