Molara wood biography books
Molara wood biography books
Molara wood biography books list.
Akin Adesokan
Measuring Time by Helon Habila (Hamish Hamilton). This is an enjoyable book in many ways, not least because of its touching story.
Two brothers; one gifted but limited by sickness, the other physically courageous but eventually wasted by the cruelties of his time.
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The idea of disability--the protagonist is a sickle-cell patient--is innovative and sustained throughout. Habila also avoids an easy formula by dispensing with the cliché of incompatible twins and, in spite of the problem of omniscience that sometimes slows down the narrative, succeeds in giving the reflective reader a story of unusual warmth in a place which time might otherwise have ignored.
Old Masters: A Comedy by Thomas Bernhard (Phoenix Fiction; tr.1989).
I also enjoyed reading this little book by the late Austrian novelist and playwright. An intense book which demands and rewards total attention, "Old Masters" is not new, having been published in translation in the year of