Howard’s End made me
miss my train stop – it’s so brilliantly plotted – but what makes me love it is
how Forster forgives his characters’ many mistakes. Even stuffy Mr. Wilcox gets forgiven.
As I inhabited each of the characters in
turn, I felt able to forgive my younger self. And I was so happy that the sisters did finally inherit Howard’s End, the
magical house of the title.
"Howards End" is E. M. Forster's classic story of the varying struggles of members of different strata of the English middle class. The story centers around three families; the Wilcoxes, who made their fortune in the American colonies; the Schlegels, three siblings who represent the intellectual bourgeoisie; and the Basts, a young struggling lower middle-class couple. "Howards End", one of Forster's greatest works, is a classic dramatization of the differences in life amongst the English middle class.
In this debut collection, Zhang writes so well about the
peculiar loneliness of living far from home.
I grew up in Scotland, and I never get to go back there as often as I
would like, or to stay as long, so I have huge sympathy for her
characters, many of whom are immigrants who can’t stop thinking about the places
and the people they’ve left behind.
I love
that in these stories, making jello salad or getting a perm can be a major
event.
Set in China and America, in the generations after the Cultural Revolution, The Sorrows of Others is a dazzling collection about people confronted with being outsiders―as immigrants, as revolutionaries, and even, often, within their own families.
"Writers with virtually perfect debuts are certainly rare; Zhang joins that short list with a magnificent ten-story collection filled with lost souls aching for connection on both sides of the world." ―Booklist starred review
In New York City, an art student finds an unexpected subject when she moves in with a grandmother from Xi’an, and boundaries are…
Reading is often the best kind of
travel – all the adventure, none of the aggravation – and I love how Nurro’s
fluent, intelligent writing takes me from Ghana to America and back again.
His characters, especially the
siblings Belinda and Jacob, are like people in real life, complex and
infuriating.
He has one of the most memorable children in recent fiction. In the best
way, I never knew what was going to happen next, and I always wanted to find out.
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America is seen through the eyes and ambitions of three characters with ties to Africa in this gripping novel
When siblings Jacob and Belinda Nti were growing up in Ghana, their goal was simple: to move to America. For them, the United States was both an opportunity and a struggle, a goal and an obstacle.…
