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Wise Blood
Published in 1952, the book centres around the taunted figure of Hazel Motes, a discharged WWII veteran who returns to his hometown to find it derelict and decayed. Seeing his childhood home entirely dissipated, he resolves to abandon it and any notion of the fundamentalist teachings he inherited through his long dead relatives. Instead, he decides to preach a new kind of refractory ‘Church without Christ’ that vows only to teach you the one truth: that there is no truth at all.
Savushun (A Persian Requiem)
Tackling themes of loneliness, duty, marriage, and rebellion, Savushun continues to be a hallmark of the tragedy and valour that characterises the history of Iran. It continues to be Iran’s most read book to date and has been reprinted more than twenty times.
L.A. Woman
Roaming Hollywood boulevard, Sophie engages with the milieu of L.A., working as a photographer, dabbling in acting in Rome, and becoming a groupie. Intertwining Sophie’s story with the older women she grew up around (such as her father’s German-Jewish friend Lola), Eve creates a narrative that is both sentimental and real, gripping yet playful, and compellingly humorous and intellectual. Even when Eve drifts into the tragical side, rest assured you are never “too far from a punch line”.
House Of Mirth
House of Mirth serves as a kind of prosecuting homage to the stifling and repressive society Edith grew up in, describing the coercive limitations on the women of her generation. The heroine Lily Bart, an Old Family socialite thrown into poverty, struggles with the desire to luxuriate in the pleasures of the wealthy, against her self-enforced inability to marry a wealthy man, the only escape from her family’s economic fall from grace
A Spy in The House of Love
Like Anaïs, Sabina grapples with the feelings of guilt in deceiving her loving husband, while also finding some incitement in the cycles of passion and deceit, calling herself an “international spy in the house of love”. Drifting between realism and surrealism, Anaïs offers a poetic narration of Sabina’s despair in living out a piece of herself with each man, and her innermost desire to wield this pieces together and find a man could love all parts of her.
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Our book for this week is “My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh. Born in Boston, Massachusetts to a Croatian Mother and Iranian Father, Ottessa earned her BA in English from Barnard College and her MFA in Literary Arts in Brown.
Her writing style is characterized by her ability to portray lowlife characters taken with an innately pessimistic outlook on wider society, in the style of one of her influence’s, Charles Bukowski.
Play It As It Lays
As she published her first non-fiction book “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, a collection of essays of her experiences in California, Joan began to gain prominence as a writer and began to mingle with the last actors and musicians of Hollywood’s Golden Age; which came to an abrupt halt after Tate-La Bianca murders, carried out by Charles Manson’s followers.