Nilanjana Roy ππ¦ Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Nilanjana Roy ππ¦ on XNilanjana Roy is a journalist and author. π ππ½ | Otter of books | Black River | Columnist, @FTLifeArts | Formerly NYT, Business Standard | (Opinions personal) Rep'd by @DGALitAgents
After Sappho
Selby Wynn SchwartzNilanjana Roy ππ¦"What if the centre of history were occupied by what women thought about and how they related to each other?" ~ Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho https://t.co/OmLBwMq4vp
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookHurricane Season
Fernanda MelchorNilanjana Roy ππ¦And thrilled that Fernanda Melchor and Bora Chung are on this list. Melchor's Hurricane Season is phenomenal: "I wanted intensity. I wanted my novel to feel like a storm." https://t.co/b7zKnqv5RB
Paperback, 2020
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldNilanjana Roy ππ¦βThey were careless people β they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.β ~ The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald https://t.co/0izPrmANPi
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookBird Cloud: A Memoir of Place
Annie ProulxNilanjana Roy ππ¦"I need room for thousands of books and big worktables where I can heap manuscripts, where I can spread out maps. Books are very important to me. I wish I could think of them as some publishers doβas βproductββ but I canβt." Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud: https://t.co/9d3ynAh87V
Paperback, 2011
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookTomb of Sand
Geetanjali ShreeNilanjana Roy ππ¦This joyful novel is a big book in every way β a triumph of literature, but also balm and solace to anyone whose life has been scarred by a border that became a forbidding wall.
Hardcover, 2023
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookThe Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Damon GalgutNilanjana Roy ππ¦Damon Galgut wins the #bookerprize for The Promise. "I think books, if they are well-done, help you to see the world a little bit more clearly. To maybe look a little bit more lucidly at what realities are." https://t.co/uGSRpdEbew https://t.co/IBRgzpb4YR
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookEverything the Light Touches
Janice PariatNilanjana Roy ππ¦"Isn't that why we embark on journeys? Not only to see new things but to see things in new ways." ~ Janice Pariat, Everything The Light Touches. Reviewed by @SansyG: https://t.co/Y4c9vqDXTi https://t.co/xCINI7ToyJ
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first bookWoodworm
Layla MartinezNilanjana Roy ππ¦An incredible reinvention of the haunted house as a place marked by history's ghosts, in this case dating back to Franco's dictatorship.
Hardcover, 2024
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAfterlives
Abdulrazak GurnahNilanjana Roy ππ¦"Itβs only in that period that people were able to step back and say, What? We donβt want these people here. How do we cope with ourselves? And it opened minds, even young peopleβs, about what had been going on, instead of the mollifying stories." https://t.co/9pTAJnQQt4
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first bookAge of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Deepti KapoorNilanjana Roy ππ¦"Delhi is this itch I constantly need to scratch." Deepti Kapoor talks to @parul_sehgal about Age of Vice and this beautiful, heartbreaking, monstrous city. https://t.co/GJLrKfIJDI
Paperback, 2024
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book