This book shows the magic of bringing mere folk tales to the imagination of a global audience, and how to do so. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Penguin, ₹399 What sets this book apart, though, is the authentic and meticulous history it narrates. This book depicts how these religions govern the world we live in by telling its millennial history, describing its ups, downs and the struggles for it. Today, Jerusalem is the holiest city in the world for Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Jerusalem: The Biography by Simon Sebag Montefiore, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ₹699 Dostoyevsky’s storytelling is simply amazing. There are no others that speak so beautifully about the mentality of acriminal, and the role played by the background in which he grew up. The work, I believe, is the most beautiful of all the novels ever written. This and the delicious suspense that keeps going till the end make this work brilliant.Ĭrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Fingerprint Publishing, ₹299 Each chapter has a different narrative style presented by each of the characters. It evolves into a dialogue between the paintings of the West and the East. The novel depicts the conflict and resentment between the painters who were commissioned a book, to be produced during the reign of the 16th century Ottoman king Murat III. My Name is Red: A Novel by Orhan Pamuk, Vintage, ₹799
For me, it is the most creative presentation of the struggles he faced in his growth from man to divinity. This is a novel that unravels the Christ we know from the Bible. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis, Faber, ₹599
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