The ancient Byzantine historian Procopius wrote a book called Anecdota, more commonly known as Arcana histora (The Secret History) chronicling the scandals and court intrigues of the rule of the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I, who reigned in the years 525 to 565 A.D. In it, Procopius described his hatred for the Emperor and [...]

Mystic River, the brilliant and award-winning contemporary crime fiction novel by Dennis Lehane, is the tale of three Boston buddies whose lives took divergent courses after one fateful day when they were kids. Now, twenty-five years later, another deeply tragic event, have not just brought them together, but has also set them off on a collision course from which no one can hope to escape unscathed.

Meet Henry DeTamble and Clare Abshire, who first met when Henry was 36 and Claire, 6. First dated when Henry was 28 and Claire 20, and got married when Henry was 30 and Claire,22. The Time Traveler’s Wife is an original love story that transcends life’s barriers of time and death, and offers a fresh, realistic, and intimate insight into the complications that the space/time continuum theory, (if possible) bring to the already complex matters of love and marriage.Henry deTamble suffers from a genetic disorder that causes him to…

Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore could be called a retelling of the Oedipus myth, but not essentially so; Yes, there is an ominous father; Yes there is a troubled teenage boy, and, yes there is also that dreadfully threatening fear of the future. But there’s more. Much more. The novel begins with a fifteen year old boy backpacking and embarking on an obscure journey to search for his mother. The first few words of the novel unfold in a conversation between the boy and his eerily personified superego - “Okay, picture a terrible sandstorm…

When remorse becomes the fatal venom that rushes through our veins, slowly and silently killing our conscience, shrinking the skeleton of our souls- seeking redemption through goodness remains the only way to recovery. Khaled Hosseini pens his first novel with poignant strokes of brotherly bonding, unconditional love, agonizing betrayal, ingrained guilt and final redemption.

“There is a way to be good again” were the words that offered Amir, the protagonist of this novel his one chance to atone for his penitent past, to recover from the truth of his childhood culpability, to deliver him from the heavy shadows of life-long guilt, into a glint of light and liberation.