In our literary segment of a three-part Cultural Roundup Series for 2017, Gabriella and Claudette discuss some of their favourite books of the year.
Tag: Book Review
Elena Ferrante, “Frantumaglia”, 2016
Gabriella and Claudette review Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante. Gabriella explores the Ferrante’s literary project of the absent author, while Claudette writes of the bogeyman of Ferrante’s novels.
Elena Ferrante, “My Brilliant Friend”, 2011
Gabriella and Claudette explore “My Brilliant Friend”, the first novel in the “Neapolitan Quartet” by the mysterious Elena Ferrante.
Half of a Yellow Sun, 2006
Gabriella and Claudette explore Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s luminous novel Half of a Yellow Sun, winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction (Now the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction) and the 2015 “Baileys of Baileys”.