For a serious reader, these days recall one of the most-quoted opening lines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”
Arundhati Roy’s memoir, announced last year, is bound to be the publication event of the year. Mother Mary Comes to Me was released in August. With author interviews, excerpts, and reviews everywhere, how can you ignore it? Yes, you were already engrossed in a long novel, but you have a to-be-read list exactly for occasions like that. So you put the inimitable Ms Roy at the top there.
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However, Kiran Desai returned with a novel after a two-decade hiatus. Unlike her mother’s Rosarita last year (112 pages), ‘Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny’ (688 pages) promises a longer-lasting immersion in the fiction world.
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