Zoilus Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Milan Kundera, ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’ “his marvellous novel mingles a hedonist’s love of eroticism, fantasy and fun with knife-sharp political satire…A masterpiece, full of angels, terror, ostriches and love” – SALMAN RUSHDIE https://t.co/tVgtPocYyX

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Nathanael West, ‘The Day of the Locust’ “West, in this short novel, crossed some of the urbanity of Scott Fitzgerald with the toughness of Hemingway: as a result he put the guts of America during the depression on show beneath a cellophane wrapping” https://t.co/MfDbFAyM7S

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George Orwell, ‘Down and Out in Paris and London’ (Penguin Books, 1966) “Few writers have possessed a greater gift for spotting the personality behind the rags, or described the reality of poverty with so little pretence.” https://t.co/j9GXWzeB70

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“The development of violence among the colonized people will be proportionate to the violence exercised by the threatened colonial regime.” Frantz Fanon (trans. Constance Farrington), ‘The Wretched of the Earth’. Penguin Books, 1967 https://t.co/gN7ZQD1wm2

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William Faulkner, 'As I Lay Dying' (Penguin Books, 1980) "Often brilliant and compelling, and one is constrained to follow to the end" - THE SPECTATOR https://t.co/q6L04sXyKb

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Umberto Eco, ‘Reflections on "The Name of the Rose" ’ (Minerva, 1994) “this account touches, along the way, on bad books, ideal readers, historical form, and the metaphysics of the detective story” – “An artful subterfuge” SUNDAY TELEGRAPH https://t.co/aGuhQrZxER

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Yukio Mishima, ‘The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea’ (Penguin Books, 1970) “Love, violence, lyrical dreams of glory, superb plotting and gruesome pay-off. This may sound a lurid hotch-potch but in fact it is a work of exquisite balance and beauty” – Sunday Telegraph https://t.co/D8ToZgruBb

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 'The Yellow Wallpaper' (Virago, 2009) "Narrated with superb psychological skill and dramatic precision, it tells the story of a nameless woman driven mad by enforced confinement after the birth of her child" https://t.co/9wWAXveXNq

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James Joyce, ‘Dubliners’ (Penguin Books, 1967) “while Joyce is impersonal, he is far from hostile to his Dubliners, whom he portrays with sympathy, understanding and wit” https://t.co/Ur3lVWTN7S

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Philip K. Dick, 'The Man in the High Castle' (Penguin Books, 1965) "If Germany had defeated Russia.. If Japan had beaten the USA... Philip Dick envisages the world as it might have been" https://t.co/e0f7BbVWza