Once you enter it-this street in Trinidad and Tobago-there is no escape. Read to the tune of Steely Dan’s ‘Everyone’s Gone to the Movies, Now We are Alone at Last!’ĭo not let the slimness of this book fool you. He has written better books, but this one-cleanly penned, easy to read, hard to digest-gets darker with every page as it explores taboos in a world where children without parents become stunted adults. Llosa holds you in thrall even before you know it. My entry to the fantastic world of South American writing: A divorced woman, an aunt here, in search of a new husband a nephew in pursuit of a life in letters situated in an unlikely love affair a writer who forgets his plots, and mixes up the characters he creates. It was OUP that published this very slim and deeply transforming book of poems that has genius written all over it-the way the phrases turned and images startled, the words sitting fabulously, each with the other, playing culture and tradition and life, with ingenuity and dexterity.Īunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa, F&F The setting is lush, the characters bizarre and the soundtrack of the film that followed-directed by Clint Eastwood-is an elegant earworm. Years after reading it, a book where true crime met a truly gifted writer, I remain convinced that improbable characters make for an unforgettable reading experience. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, Sceptre Has you fervently wishing Marina Lewycka was as prolific as, say, James Hadley Chase. A man in his eighties marries a glamorous Ukrainian divorcée, a woman less than half his age, bringing chaos into his flabbergasted family.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka, PenguinĪ funny, funny book, which has you hooked from the first sentence.
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