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The best (and worst) novels of 2021 so far In this regularly updated guide, our critics review the best of the year s fiction – and suggest a few books to avoid Eight of the best: this year s top novels The Start-Up Wife by Tahmima Anam ★★★☆☆ Tahmima Anam is best known as the award-winning writer of three novels (A Golden Age, The Good Muslim and The Bones of Grace), and less well-known as the executive director of a music technology startup called ROLI. An experience no doubt plumbed for her latest book, The Startup Wife, a tech industry-set reverse romcom in which a young Bangladeshi-American woman creates a social media network that gets out of control. ....
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland Virago, 288pp, £16.99 “I am hardly qualified to write a biography of Carson McCullers,” writes Jenn Shapland. “I have read enough biographies to know, in no uncertain terms, that they are built of artifice and lies. I am not a fiction writer, and this is not a biography.” Instead, this book weaves together criticism, ....
From the winner of the Nobel Prize hailed as the laureate of life under totalitarianism, a haunting early novel of surveillance and paranoia Romania the last months of the Ceausescu regime. Adina is a young schoolteacher. Paul is a musician. Clara works in a wire factory. Pavel is Clara s lover. But one of them works for the secret police and is reporting on the rest of the group. One day Adina returns home to discover that her fox fur rug has had its tail cut off. On another occasion it s the hindleg. Then a foreleg. The mutilated fur is a sign that she is being tracked by the secret police the fox was ever the hunter. Images of photographic precision combine into a kaleidoscope of terror as Adina and her friends struggle to keep mind and body intact in a world pervaded by complicity and permeated with fear, where it s hard to tell victim from perpetrator. And once again, Herta Muller uses language that displays the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose as ....