Umar Tosheeb Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Teacher. Interested in reading, fiction, history, European History, South Asian History, and languages.
Disorientation
Elaine Hsieh ChouUmar Tosheeb“In many ways, poetry serves no purpose. It cannot cure sickness, it cannot end wars, it cannot feed the hungry. And yet, a society without poetry is not a society at all.” Disorientation by Elaine Hsieh Chou
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Home in the World: A Memoir
Amartya SenUmar Tosheeb“Good language is a product of discerning love.” Home In The World, Amartya Sen https://t.co/sRrIJX2FpP
Paperback, 2023
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swann's Way
Marcel ProustUmar TosheebSwann’s Way, Marcel Proust https://t.co/9JoUjur39q
Paperback, 2004
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Homeland Elegies
Ayad AkhtarUmar Tosheeb“A day spent reading is not a great day. But a life spent reading is a wonderful life.” Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sound of the Mountain
Yasunari KawabataUmar Tosheeb“It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us.” Yasunari Kawabata, The Sound of the Mountain https://t.co/PZSCiGOxS5
Paperback, 1996
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Other Names for Love
Taymour SoomroUmar TosheebJust received my copy! It is rare to see back to back Pakistani English fiction books published. Last month I read Other Names for Love by Taymour Soomro, and this one just got published. https://t.co/lL8dD47e8z
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Years
Annie ErnauxUmar Tosheeb“Education aroused suspicion, a fear that through some obscure sanction, a punitive reversal that awaited those who tried to rise too high, learning made you lose your marbles.” The Years, Annie Ernaux
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time #1
Proust MarcelUmar TosheebSwann’s Way, Marcel Proust https://t.co/9JoUjur39q
Paperback, 2017
$21.10$10.55 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Our Missing Hearts: Reese's Book Club
Celeste NgUmar Tosheeb“They would never speak again, but they were linked now, as those who’ve been through something terrible together are forever fused, in ways they don’t always understand.” Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
Wole SoyinkaUmar Tosheeb“It wasn’t just the medical services. We preferred to import every kind of expertise—railway engineers, teachers, surveyors—all the way from India and Pakistan, the latter most especially.” Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth by Wole Soyinka
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book