Books of gold

A blog about books from all around the world, with an emphasis on everything postcolonial.

Sunday, December 22, 2013

"Meatless Days by Sara Suleri

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    "Leaving Pakistan was, of course, tantamount to giving up the company of women. [M]y reference is to a place where the conce...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Reading and Writing about it...

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It occurred to me that I never posted the link to an article I published in Italian about "Reading Lolita in Teheran" by Azar Naf...
Friday, July 5, 2013

"Istanbul: Memoirs of a City" by Orhan Pamuk

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Before my trip to Istanbul, I decided to read something about the city, and I picked up this memoir by Orhan Pamuk, the greatest living T...
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Saturday, March 23, 2013

"Indigo. Or Mapping the Waters" by Marina Warner

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Indigo is one of the many works of literature inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest . In this novel Marina Warner spills the beans a...
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Thursday, January 24, 2013

"Annie John" by Jamaica Kincaid

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Growing up in Antigua, one of the many islands of the Caribbean Sea, is not easy for Annie: she has to endure the competition of her schoo...
Monday, December 17, 2012

"Il paese dove non si muore mai" di Ornela Vorpsi

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Ornela Vorpsi ha una storia un po' particolare: nata a Tirana, in Albania, nel 1968, ha studiato per alcuni anni all'Accademia di...
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

"Cast me out if you will" by Lalithambika Antherjanam

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In the jungle of Indian writers you may have never heard the name of Lalithambika Antherjanam (1905-1985), in spite of the fact that she wa...
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