New York Times-bestselling novel,
Love, Hate and Other Filters (Soho Teen, 2019). The book explores the life of an Indian-American Muslim as she battles Islamophobia and cultural divides. Her other works include
Internment (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2019) and
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know (Soho Teen, 2020).
Internment revolves around the life of a Muslim teen who is forced into an internment camp for Muslim Americans and decides to rebel. Narrated in dual timelines,
Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know traces the lives of two women striving to chase their passion while escaping family burdens.
Canadian author Uzma Jalaluddin s debut novel,
Ayesha At Last (Berkley Books, 2019), is loosely based on the plot of Jane Austen s
ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [MARCH - NORWAY]
Hey everyone! We ve now journeyed into South Korea and Argentina, and I hope you ve enjoyed your reading so far.
Let us know in the comments which Argentinian book you read for February and whether you liked it! Now March is just around the corner, so it s time to pack our bags and check out what chilly
Norway has to offer us for our ONTD reading challenge!
Major thanks to
kjendis5 for helping with the write-up and explaining what were the most important points to focus on. We hope knowing more about the country will help to improve your reading experience! Thank you also to
, translated by Misha Hoekstra. Nors is the author of seven novels, including Mirror, Shoulder, Signal
, which was a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Denmark. Misha Hoekstra is an award-winning translator. He lives in Aarhus, where he writes and performs songs under the name Minka Hoist.
This heat, no peace. Seen from the hotel room window, the palm trees tilt. Down in Pershing Square is a tower that someone’s erected, with a bright Christmas ornament at the top. At first she thought it was a bell tower, but the ornament can’t ring. The first evening, when the heat eased off, she walked guardedly down Grand Avenue. When she came to a cross street, someone yelled, “Hey girl, are you European?” and then she turned and went back to the hotel. She’s no girl any more, that’s obvious. But she is European, though how would he know? It might be her pale skin, but then she could just as easily be Canadian. Which wouldn’t be the worst thing in the w
2021 ONTD Reading Challenge Around the World [JANUARY - SOUTH KOREA]
Hello everyone! Hope you are ready to get started on the 2021 ONTD Reading Challenge! Our January month is South Korea. So many interesting and original works from Korea have been translated in the past few years (lucky for us), so we have a lot of great options for this challenge and no excuses not to give it a try!
A quick announcement: the Goodreads group WILL still be updated, thanks to the very kind ONTDers
patchsassy. So if you like to keep track of your challenge over there, you can :)
John le Carré at the premiere of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in 2011
Credit: Sang Tan/AP
One of John le Carré’s final public appearances came on his 88th birthday – October 19 2019 – when he was one of the hundreds of thousands of people taking part in the “Together for the Final Say” march calling for a second Brexit referendum.
There’s a fine photograph of him on that day, with his walking stick and “Bollocks to Brexit” sticker, eyes stern under beetling brows worthy of Methuselah. This is not just the look of a man annoyed that he’s having to miss out on a birthday tea at Claridge’s: this is somebody full of righteous fury about the seemingly never-ending stupidity of those who have run the world over the nine decades of his existence.