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Book Reviews

Book Review: Mr. Iyer Goes to War by Ryan Lobo

by New Asian Writing • 01/04/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Title: Mr. Iyer Goes to War Author: Ryan Lobo Pages: 215 Publisher: Bloomsbury Rating: 3.5/5 Story in a nutshell: Beginning in an old age home located near River Ganges in the city of Varanasi, the novel follows the adventures…

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Book Review: Dark Diamond by Shazia Omar

by New Asian Writing • 01/04/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Review: Dark Diamond by Shazia Omar Book Name: Dark Diamond Author: Shazia Omar Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9385936468 Number of Pages: 229 Rating: 3.8/5 Story in a nutshell: ‘All that they cherish shall perish’. Kalinoor, the dark variant of the…

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Book Review: A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

by New Asian Writing • 01/04/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Review- A Country Doctor’s Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov Book Name: A Country Doctor’s Notebook Author: Mikhail Bulgakov Number of pages: 23 Rating: 4/5 Story in a nutshell: The story begins with Dr. Bomgard who is the narrator in a…

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Book Review: Mornings After by Tharun James Jimani

by New Asian Writing • 01/04/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Review: Mornings After by Tharun James Jimani Book Name: Mornings After Author: Tharun James Jimani Publisher: Bloomsbury ISBN: 9789385436468 Number of Pages: 266 Overall Rating: 4/5 Reviewed by: Sai Prasanna P. Story in a nutshell: Sonya works in the…

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Inflection (Book Review) by Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta

by New Asian Writing • 31/03/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Name: Inflection Authors: Nilesh Shrivastava and Pushp Deep Gupta Publisher: Fingerprint Rating: 4.2/5 Book Blurb: Real careers are not perfect. Professional success is not absolute. People shape careers and then over time,  careers shape people. Feb 1999. The batch of…

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NAW Poetry

‘Lit Talk’ by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

by New Asian Writing • 27/03/2018 • 0 Comments

If you find a girl, don’t make her yours— she won’t get your obscure literary allusions, so why not give up on poets who cut lines in search of heads, top quite gone?   You can turn any word into…

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‘Speak’ by Angela Gabrielle Fabunan

by New Asian Writing • 27/03/2018 • 0 Comments

1 I saw the reflection of you in my morning cup looking like me. Oh Narcissus, our love of peering at ourselves is only an illusion. Do not be afraid of the edges nor the ripples in the water, it…

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Inflection (Book Excerpt) by Nilesh Shrivastava & Pushp Deep Gupta

by New Asian Writing • 13/03/2018 • 0 Comments

Real careers are not perfect. Professional success is not absolute. People shape careers and then over time, careers shape people. Feb 1999. The batch of 1999 steps out from one of India’s leading business schools—Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata—into the…

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Book Review: Tropical Detective: A Hari Majestic Mystery by Zac O’ Yeah

by New Asian Writing • 08/03/2018 • 0 Comments

Book Name: Tropical Detective: A Hari Majestic Mystery Author: Zac O’Yeah Genre: Fiction Publisher: Pan Macmillan Rating: 4.9/5 Book Blurb: Part of the Hari Majestic series, in Tropical Detective Hari grows up, gets serious and travels to Sweden in his first ever…

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Do We Not Bleed (Book Review) by Mehr Tarar

by New Asian Writing • 04/03/2018 • 0 Comments

Do We Not Bleed (Book Review) by Mehr Tarar Book Name: Do We Not Bleed Author: Mehr Tarar Publisher: Aleph Rating: 3.7/5 Blurb: Do We Not Bleed? Reflections of a 21st-Century Pakistani is a passionate, illuminating book about contemporary Pakistan. Comprising…

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‘Liwat’ by Imran Khan

by New Asian Writing • 03/03/2018 • 0 Comments

You strung them up together, A constellation of sin, Black suns, primitive blurs, counterparts to our purity, As if humanity turns inside Out by a type of love you won’t accept. You can’t Repress this urge for beauty killed. It’s…

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