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Ben Sharafski
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Anton Chekhov, Isaac Babel, Stendhal, Graham Greene, Italo Calvino, No
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The Beach
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Returning to Carthage
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Mekong Longboat
The next morning we were all sitting in a longboat going down the Mekong on our way to visit an ancient hillside cave housing a small Buddhist temple. The boat sped down the river past well-tended vegetable plots and thickly-forested slopes. In the distance there were fantastically shaped hills, their curved contours resembling those of the mountains in old Chinese scroll paintings. I had assumed
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An easy, quick little meditation on an ordinary death of an ordinary sick old Jewish woman. An elegy of sorts. The sobering last few lines force upon the reader the ordinary question: "Why did I never say 'I love you' "?" Read more of this review » |
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(A continuación, la reseña en español) In the opening scene, José María, a forty-year-old construction worker, is in a cheap hotel room with his twenty-five-year-old girlfriend Rosa, a housemaid. He's trying to talk her into having anal sex with him. W ...more |
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(La reseña en español a continuación). Márquez is a master storyteller. All it takes is one opening sentence and the reader is already thrown deep into a place and a situation. His characters are fully fleshed out and complex - you can almost touch a ...more |
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"Kafka le ha dado la coartada perfecta a los escritores vagos: no justificar, ni explicar, ni entender la acción ni las motivaciones de los personajes le otorga a un texto su atributo de kafkiano. Al mismo tiempo, escribir de forma genérica y enigmáti"
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“Life is inherently uncertain; the only thing to anchor us is those we love.”
― Returning to Carthage
― Returning to Carthage
“when you want something desperately enough, the reality you need to fabricate in order to attain it becomes your truth.”
― Returning to Carthage
― Returning to Carthage
“She lived in a small flat in a long barracks-style block of an almost Soviet austerity. The claustrophobic living room’s walls were lined with books: bulky hard-cover volumes of the collected works of various Japanese novelists, encyclopaedias, a smattering of translated works — Shakespeare (“Hamuretto”), Dostoevsky, Balzac.”
― Returning to Carthage
― Returning to Carthage
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“Life is inherently uncertain; the only thing to anchor us is those we love.”
― Returning to Carthage
― Returning to Carthage
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Majenta wrote: "Hello, Ben! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and safe and ready for a great weekend after a successful week. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything els..."Majenta wrote: "Hello, Ben! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and safe and ready for a great weekend after a successful week. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything els..."
Thank you, Magenta!
Hello, Ben! Thank you for contacting me! I hope you are well and safe and ready for a great weekend after a successful week. Congratulations on your book! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Blessings! Best wishes from Majenta
Thank you for the friendship!I look forward to reading more of your reviews.
Matthew wrote: "Thanks for the friend request"My pleasure, Matthew!
Joanna Chu (The ChuseyReader) wrote: "Thanks for the add Ben :). Its rare to find fellow Aussies here! :). Happy reading."Thank you, Joanna - it's an honour to be friends with such a chusey reader!
Thanks for the add Ben :). Its rare to find fellow Aussies here! :). Happy reading.
Sandra wrote: "Hi Ben,Thanks for the friend-invite! :)"
My pleasure, Sandra!
Kyle wrote: "Hi Ben,Thanks very much for the friend request!"
Happy to connect, Kyle. Looking forward to reading your reviews!
Hi Ben,Thanks very much for the friend request!
