The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami is a Japanese novel published in 1994-95. The book has a total page count of 607- which is longer than most of Haruki Murakami’s other acclaimed works.

Murakami is a very famous author- in fact, one of the very people who have huge support and fan following to win the next nobel prize in terms of critics as well as everyday literature readers. His language is uniquely simple, every word is clear and one encounters no difficulty in grasping the importance of what he states which is one of the many positive aspects of this significant work.

It is an emotional rollercoaster that takes you through very harsh yet subtle instances of loneliness, a search of identity, alienation, friendship, love, loss and, heartache. Read more.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is a 1985 surrealistic science fiction novel by Haruki Murakami which is set in two fictional universes – Hard-Boiled Wonderland and The End of the World. The amusing aspect of the novel is that none of the characters are named especially but are referred to certainly by their professions, characteristics and cheeky nicknames.

It is no surprise that Murakami builds up a very unbelievably strange universe with all sorts of mystic elements and crazy twists and turns yet he intrigues you with his lucid, simple and fast-paced first-person narrative, dragging you into this weird tale of emotions.

Overall, a strong fast-paced work by Murakami that blows you away with its spiritual, mystic and bewildering climax.

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1984 by George Orwell

‘1984’ is a dystopian political fiction novel published and written by George Orwell in the year 1949, which garnered universal acclaim. The novel is not only dystopian, it is also an accurate and depressive portrayal of what a nightmare Utopia can be, because there can never be a Utopia without bloodshed, and ignorance of human faculties, a perfect world is denounced by Orwell as the bleakest of the worlds.

The novel strongly showcases the reality of totalitarian and authoritarian governments, and how many layers are constructed to give an illusory sense of the word to the proletarians, the bourgeoisie, aristocracy, and the vast disparity between the inner party leaders and the rest of the unfortunate ones. Read more

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Road is a 2006 apocalypse novel written by Cormac McCarthy which is recognised as one of his many masterpieces of American literature which garnered him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2007 and James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006.

The novel is a haunting story of an unnamed father and son who travel across the vast wasteland void of humanity, to live and survive one day at a time, nothing to look forward to and nothing to live for.

The Road is simultaneously a study of morality, character, human depravity and struggle of light and darkness, God and Demon as the marauders go through the roads, and dark houses with cannibals storing humans to eat them up.

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The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

‘The Line of Beauty’ is a novel of philosophical, subliminal depth and beauty that has sacred prose with a poetic voice rarely heard or written, it has a harmony that doesn’t only satiate the intellect, but touches the reader’s soul in a way many other novels haven’t.

Hollinghurst is a writer of keen observation and subtle commentary on the buzzing aristocratic life in London, which was even beautifully written in The Swimming Pool Library, but a notch higher in this piece of work.

‘The Line of Beauty’ is a novel to die for and a symphonic achievement that showcases delicate artistic taste and sense.

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

‘Brave New World, a novel published in 1931, is an understated novel that contains between its covers, some of the most important messages to liberate humanity out of the clutches of wilful slavery.

The novel represents a continuous struggle between happiness and the necessary evil, sedated minds don’t constitute a utopia, minds which don’t appreciate literature, philosophy, and art, mechanized brains designed to receive inundated amounts of pleasure and intoxication, in the guise of the most desirable word ‘happiness’.

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The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst

'The Swimming Pool Library’ is a novel that amazes the reader with its unique outlook for delicate and deep psychological insights, it turns out to be surprising and in the end, very moving.

‘The Swimming Pool Library’ is an amazing title choice for the novel, it is poetic, lyrical, breezy, casually charming and wonderfully metaphorical, hinting at the flowing sexual escapades of characters, and especially the coming of age of William Beckwith, as he realises and awakens to the fact when he is planning his book, that Charles’ diary is not only a beautiful evidence of personal struggle but it is a haunting portrait of homosexual life in the world.

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