What should you read next? Here are the best revised books of the week ‹Literary hub
Daniel Kehlmann The directorAmanda Hess’ Second lifeand Florence Knapp Names All are among the best revised books of the week.
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1 and 1 Names by Florence Knapp
(Pamela Dorman Books)
11 rave
“The kind of novel that is required to create a discussion on the events that occur, which they mean and how they relate. Names Transcend a premise which could present itself as Gimmicky. »»
–Chris Hewitt (The Star Tribune))
2 The director by Daniel Kehlmann
(Summit books)
6 rave • 3 positive
“Taut, flawless … Suddenly observed … Stop … The mystery of Kehlmann animates with force the cost – artistic and moral – of collaboration.”
–Lauren Leblanc (The Boston Globe))
3 and 3 Old school Indian by Aaron John Curtis
(Zando)
5 rave
“Comic and touching fault … The evolutionary relationship between the narrator and the anti-hero that he observes and interferes gives the novel its considerable power.”
–Margaret Quamme (Book list))
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1 and 1 Point of merger: family, memory and search for a promised land By Rachel Cockerell
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
6 rave • 2 positive • 1 mixed
“Multi-vow, and with a legion of different perspectives, the resulting book is wonderfully vital and idiosyncratic, a model of the way the writing of history can be made fresh … But if this book is not a perfectly structured, the sum of its parts is added to an innovative and immediate report of a history that has a global meaning.”
–Lucy Hughes-Halett (The guardian))
2 Second life: having a child in the digital age By Amanda Hess
(Doubleday)
5 rave • 4 positive
“Spot-on and brutally funny … As a member of the elite particularly online, Hess herself is also a kind of expert, a kind that I am happy to the dense digital jungle. However, she also painted herself intelligently like another voluntary internet victim … Hess does all this without sharing a drop of advice – Hallelujah.
–Hillaire Kelly (The Atlantic))
3 and 3 The Peepepshow: The Murders at Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
(Penguin Press)
3 rave • 3 positive • 1 mixed
“Note … Dark, without compromise … Summerscale restores the dignity of Christie’s victims by telling their stories in the turn of the best she can … A lively portrait of a bitterly divided society … powerful.”
–Erica Wagner (Financial time))
