Omer Pasha Latas by Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić is set during nineteenth-century Sarajevo, a place where both Muslims and Christians live, harboring uneasy feelings toward one another and resentment for the Ottoman rule.
While I didn’t find a common plot in this story, other than the actions of Omer and his troops, I found the story quite engaging. This book is about characters, rather than plot, which fit perfectly.
Read MoreAn inspiration from his trip to Spain in 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote the 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises, which revolves around American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermin in Pamplona to watch the running bulls and the bullfights.
Read MoreMoby Dick! The great behemoth of stories. If you’ve read this one, then you’re probably at the cool classic’s book club table. This book came to me from my father, and for a long time I was reluctant to read it for one excuse or another: it’s too long, there are whales in it, etc. etc. But when I finally got around to consuming those wonderful pages, I was enthralled--enchanted.
Read MoreThis book is depicted in eight different parts, with more than a dozen characters. For those of you who find challenge in a book-length, then look no further! Anna Karenina is over a whopping 800 pages (depending on the translation) and typically contained into two volumes.
Read MoreFor this week, I would like to talk about “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” a semi-autobiographical story published in 1943 by Betty Smith. Betty focuses on a young impoverished girl Francine Nolan and her family living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, during the first two decades of the 20th century.
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