Book Review – Daughters of the Dragon
Daughters of the Dragon is a fictionalised account of Korea during WWII and the dark period of the Japanese occupation. Comfort Women are still to be acknowledged…
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Book Review – A Train to Moscow
A Train to Moscow is a beautifully written book by Elena Gorokhova. Takes you behind the iron curtain post WWII. Worth a read !
Book Review – The Dressmaker’s Gift
Finished reading The Dressmaker’s Gift by Fiona Valpy a couple of days back. It’s historical fiction and a two timeline story. Worth a read.
Book Review – The Tuscan Child
This is another two timeline book by Rhys Bowen. Interesting but not quite like The Venice Sketchbook. My rating is 3/5, a one time read only.
Book Review – The Last Rose of Shanghai
A beautiful story set in the city of Shanghai during WWII. Do read about Aiyi (an heiress) and Ernest (a refugee) and their epic love.
Revisiting The Bengal Famine
A Twitter Thread by @Shrikantha5 about Amartya Sen whitewashing the role of Churchill in the Bengal Famine made me revisit it. Internal enemies abound :(.
Book Review – The Last Green Valley
An amazing true life story about the Martels finding their Green Valley in Montana, US. They survive the Long Trek, Stalin’s rule, and WWII.
Book Review – The Mountains Sing
The Mountains Sing is a moving book about the effect that the Vietnam war had on the Vietnamese. A must read to understand our crazy world a little better.
Book Review : Beneath a Scarlet Sky
I completed reading this book nearly 45 days back and just created a draft post to review it and forgot about it. But haven’t forgotten the book. Its strange that such a powerful story was missed out during and just after the second world war. It is a true story of Pino Lella, a normal Italian … Read more
Book Review – All the light we cannot see
This was the other book that I had bought just before our trip to Laos. The author, Anthony Doerr won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for this book and after reading it, its well deserved. The story is set during the World War II and its about Marie Laure, a French girl who has been blind … Read more