While returning from a trip to the UK for research, I committed to finishing Ma Jian’s The Dark Road. Not only was this book very, very dark, but it gave voice to faceless men and women whose individual stories we can never hope to know. Let me just say that, God knows their names. He…
Month: November 2013
two unexpected pleasures: Nagaland to the heartland
i had the opportunity recently to pick up a couple more books towards my goal of 12 fiction books this year. i had fallen off the pace quite a bit, but it may still be possible for me to finish. in october/november, i’ve read “an outline of the republic” by siddhartha deb, and “fallen land”…