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Best Book of 1955: Pedro Páramo
Louise Stern
Louise Stern on why Pedro Páramo is the best book of 1955.
Look Out, Narendran!
Subha
A madman is dead set on blowing up the Taj Mahal, and there’s only one pair of detectives who can stop him. Tamil Pulp Fiction at its best.
Breach Candy
Samanth Subramanian
‘There are clubs like the Breach Candy Club all over the Indian subcontinent: relics of the Raj, institutions that were set up as bolt-holes for the British, where they could retreat to row or swim or play cricket or race horses.’
The Middle Ages: Approaching the Question of a Terminal Date
David Szalay
‘What is left? What is he to wrap himself in, now that everything has floated off into space?’
To Rio de Janeiro
Gonçalo M. Tavares
‘In the end, what one understands in Rio de Janeiro is that joy is the only coherence of a living being.’
To Zagreb
Yoko Tawada
‘You didn’t know where you wanted to end up, had never considered how much time you had left.’
