An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World, has the dream-like taste of an Haiku or Hay(na)ku. It is the most reticent of Ishiguro’s novels, a sense of calmness hovers over his scenic imagination, character depth, and the spoken word. An Artist of the Floating World, is not, in the end as intoxicatingly heartbreaking as The Remains of The Day, or as emotionally disturbing as Never Let Me Go. Yet, An Artist of The Floating World is a novel which has beauty and regret percolating across all its pages, and paints an absolutely unforgettable dream-like landscape.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel written by Gabriel García Márquez, published in the year 1967. It is one of the greatest progenitors of the modern magical realism, set in the fictional city of Macondo, tracing the lifeline of the generations of the Buendía family. The novel is perhaps the most significant work in the magical realism literary canon, and is embellished with a simple and musical prose, wrought with striking images, metaphors, symbols and allegories. The narrative is glazed with perhaps hundreds of swiftly moving anecdotes, passing in small spasms through the fleeting air, inducing a dream-like quality. It is very clear from the first paragraph, that Gabriel Garcia Marquez, is an original, one of his own kind. One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the finest novels ever written, which between its covers, reflects and meditates upon the whole continent of human emotions that any heart has ever known. A landmark book. 

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My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk

My Name Is Red is a murder mystery and philosophical art novel written by Nobel Prize winning writer Orhan Pamuk. My Name Is Red is the one which follows a very complex plot with a very large cast of characters who belong to different backgrounds, complex and deep and symbolic, unforgettable in a sense, I would say. My Name Is Red, is in totality a novel of the tensions between the east and the west which is wondrously explored through the eyes of artists gazing at miniatures and paintings. The novel has the structure and complexity of a labyrinth, because the moment the reader experiences a thunderous shock, Pamuk sets the stage for another and another, creating prisms of reality within reality, and interweaving stories within stories, creating a web of history, politics, social culture, romance and sexual intrigue. My Name Is Red is a beguiling portrait of art and the landscape of the east, which delights and haunts the reader in numerous guises of its marvellous characters.
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The Enigma of Arrival by Sir V.S. Naipaul

The Enigma of Arrival by Sir V.S. Naipaul is a novel in five sections published in 1987 based on real life events of the writer during his time in Wiltshire and his recollections of the past, during his emigration to New York from Trinidad. This book cannot and should not be recognised as a novel, it is a piece of wonderful literature and brilliant prose writing, but to call it a novel is restricting and shallow of those who have labelled it. It is a real life work, in which Naipaul is the man inside, ensorcelling the reader with his benumbing and painful observations recorded in a prose which is extraordinary. The Enigma of Arrival is a deeply lonely and depraved book, a book which has scarcely any compassion, any colour or any reassurance. It is a solitary and dry book which brutally wounds the reader, profoundly diminishing with its lack of spring, all it has between its covers is the endless cycle of tension, loss, grief and mortality moving endlessly again and again until broken by death.

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The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

The novel "The God of Small Things" is a heartbreaking, devastating and crushing portrayal of human lives that cling to small things when big things flow against the tide, and how small things break the human heart more than the big things in life. The book expands the moral landscape of dilemmas and stands as an iconoclastic work, heroic and courageous. A superb novel which a reader can never forget because of the sheer beauty of Roy’s characters, their feelings hanging on the slate of her lyrical prose, and how they fall and break so delicately like flowers crushed and squelched beneath the footsteps of leather-boots. A fragile and dark fairy tale of emotions. A must read.
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Amongst Women by John McGahern

Amongst Women by John McGahern is a novel published in the year 1990, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and has come to be recognised as one of the great Irish novels of our time. The novel has a simple plot encompassing a small cast of characters, of which most are women. Every character is endearing, dark and compassionate, constantly ever-changing as the sudden transformations in the physical landscape. In Amongst Women, the characters laugh, smile, revel in their naughtiness amidst the dark clouds hovering above them. This is the writing that breathes life into the dying fiction, and we need more voices like them to keep the blood flowing in the veins of prose. Amongst Women is one of the few triumphs of fiction that achieves greatness through its simplicity and original human voice. It is a book of a lifetime, go read it!
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Voss by Patrick White

Voss is difficult and formidable, yet it also proves to be one of the greatest novels of our time. I might agree that some of the colonial adventures shown in the book might seem old-fashioned to the new readers, but I would say almost every sentence of this book is calculated and purposeful. Seldom there have been writers who have such a balanced command over liminal spaces in our psychological and physical horizons of nature. The novel rides astride on two boundaries enriching the story with movement. The words move like sharp darts across the fertile landscape to the bleakest thoughts of its memorable characters until they merge to create a mind-bending portrait of new realism.
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