Wednesday 24 October 2012

Books 2012-2015 (Read/To Read)

The Blind Owl - Sadegh Hedayat
The Colonel - Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Umbrella - Will Self
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Marcia Marquez
Into The Darkest Corner - Elizabeth Haynes
Soldaten - Sonke Neitzel / Harald Weltzer
Who I Am - Pete Townsend
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
The Railway Man - Eric Lomax
Missing Soluch - Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Bringing Up The Bones - Hilary Mantel
The Garden of Evening Mists - Tan Twan Eng
A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
Arguably - Christopher Hitchens
The Spanish Holocaust - Paul Preston
Charles Dickens A Life - Claire Tomalin
Malcolm X - Manning Marable
Life - Keith Richards
Money - Martin Amis
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
The Knowledge of Good & Evil - Glenn Kleier
Spies of the Balkans - Alan Furst

Family Photos 2012

Sunday 14 October 2012

Book of the Month: The Blind Owl

Just finished reading 'The Blind Owl' by Sadegh Hedayat (translated by Naveed Noori). A masterpiece of Persian literature. A book to be read.

http://therumpus.net/2010/10/why-i-love-sadegh-hedayats-the-blind-owl/

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Blind-Owl-Sadegh-Hedayat/dp/9186131443