Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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"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

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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

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“They were careless people — 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.” ~ The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald https://t.co/0izPrmANPi

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"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 do—as “product”— but I can’t." Annie Proulx, Bird Cloud: https://t.co/9d3ynAh87V

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This joyful novel is a big book in every way — a triumph of literature, but also balm and solace to anyone whose life has been scarred by a border that became a forbidding wall.

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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

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"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

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+ March fiction: Monica Ali's Love Marriage (haven't finished this yet), Neel Patel's Tell Me How To Be (mothers, sons, the messiness of human hearts), and Moin Mir's The Lost Fragrance of Infinity (follows a young craftsman, Qarar Ali, across empires, Central Asia and Sufism). https://t.co/05okV7aGzi

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"It’s only in that period that people were able to step back and say, What? We don’t want these people here. How do we cope with ourselves? And it opened minds, even young people’s, about what had been going on, instead of the mollifying stories." https://t.co/9pTAJnQQt4

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"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