Adultery is the sixteenth major book by international best-selling Brazilian author, Paulo Coelho. It touches on the theme of adultery. The English edition was published by Knopf this week. The story centres on a woman in her thirties who begins to question the routine and predictability of her days. Publicly, she has a perfect life: […]
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage – Haruki Murakami
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年) is the thirteenth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Published in April 2013 in Japan, it is a publishing sensation selling one million copies in one month.
The story is about Tsukuru Tazaki. In high school, his four best friends all had a colour as part of their surnames, leaving him the “colourless” one of their group. But his life is derailed in 1995 when his friends abruptly cut all ties to him. The never-explained ostracism leaves him suicidal and when his only college friend vanishes the next semester, he feels “fated to always be alone”.
Now at 36, Tsukuru is spurred by his new girlfriend to come face-to-face with the past and find out why his friends rejected him. He visits them one by one…
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (色彩を持たない多崎つくると、彼の巡礼の年) is the thirteenth novel by Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Published in April 2013 in Japan, it is a publishing sensation selling one million copies in one month. The story is about Tsukuru Tazaki. In high school, his four best friends all had a colour as part […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
This week’s review: I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green was again the week’s Payot top seller. Having already reviewed it, Le News instead looks at the third highest entry, I Am Pilgrim, the debut novel by former journalist and screen-writer, Terry Hayes. It was published in July 2013 […]
Payot’s best sellers of the week
This week’s top seller is The Fault in Our Stars, the sixth novel by author John Green. The story is narrated by a sixteen-year-old cancer patient named Hazel Grace Lancaster, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with the seventeen-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player and amputee. The title is inspired from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt remains in top place this week. Coming in at number 2 is Sycamore Row, a novel by the ever-popular legally-fixated American author John Grisham. The book is a direct sequel to his powerful first novel, A Time to Kill, and again features attorney Jake Brigance as the main character. It was released in October 2013. A right ripping yarn!
Payot’s best sellers of the week
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt has retaken the top place this week. To avoid repeating the excellent review it has already received in Le News, it is worth commenting instead on the welcome arrival into the top ten of A Delicate Truth, a spy novel by John le Carré. Set in 2011, the book flashes back to a 2008 joint American-British covert anti-jihadist mission on the Rock of Gibraltar and its consequences.
Le Carré has described this as his most autobiographical work in years. The author, a former MI5 and MI6 officer, told The Daily Telegraph that he has based two of the book’s characters on himself.
Le Carré is truly on form with his latest work and his authentic insights into the harsh realities of espionage are thoroughly compelling.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
For the second time since June, top of the list is Inferno, a mystery thriller from Dan “de Vinci Code” Brown, and the fourth book in his Robert Langdon series. Set mainly in Florence, the plot is as twisted as any dreamed up by that lovely city’s renaissance politician, Niccolò Machiavelli. The book was number one on the New York Times Best Seller list for the first eleven weeks of its release in 2013.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Top of this week’s list is The Goldfinch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning third novel from Donna Tartt, her first new book in 11 years. The book was selected as one of the 10 Best Books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review.
Payot’s best sellers of the week
Award-winning American author, John Green, has done it again. Considered his most ambitious novel yet, it explores the humorous, thrilling but tragic experience of being alive – and in love. Hazel has just earned herself a few extra years with a tumour-shrinking medical miracle. But a striking plot shift emerges in the form of Augustus Waters, who appears at a Cancer Kid Support Group. This results in an unexpected re-write of Hazel’s story
