Chaar_Bagh rated Museum of Innocence: 4 stars

Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, Maureen Freely
"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …
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"It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn't know it." So begins the new novel, his first …

The year is 1327. Benedictines in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives …

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, …

Many Exquisite Dreams Isabella CHarteris - lovely, slender, serene as a medieval saint. The princess of Castle St. Loo, gently …

By an acclaimed writer at the height of his powers, The Sense of an Ending extends a streak of extraordinary …

"An epic novel of love and history and the perseverance of the human spirit in the face of loss and …

After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last …

Vivēka Śānabhāga: Ghachar ghochar (2017)
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting novel about an upwardly mobile family splintered by …

"This book is not about what happened to you as a child; it's about what failed to happen for you …
These are excellent stories- with the right mixture of humor and drama which combine to produce a searing critique of social morality and the toll it takes on individuals especially women. But the quality of translation is rather poor. So much is lost in the mechanical sentence to sentence translation that has been undertaken. While Women Unlimited needs to be commended for bringing out this series on Chugtai's novellas and stories, I wish they had commissioned a fresh translation.
These are excellent stories- with the right mixture of humor and drama which combine to produce a searing critique of social morality and the toll it takes on individuals especially women. But the quality of translation is rather poor. So much is lost in the mechanical sentence to sentence translation that has been undertaken. While Women Unlimited needs to be commended for bringing out this series on Chugtai's novellas and stories, I wish they had commissioned a fresh translation.