British author Aminatta Forna's novel The Memory of Love has won best book at the Commonwealth Writers' Prize ceremony in Sydney.
There are lovely passages about Adam's hospital work with other people's children, for instance, and about Rebecca's work for Mr Damiano, the hotelier, which chime in unexpected ways with the novel's main themes of love and loss.
And it occurs to me that the novel I'd most love to write would be a 21st-century update of Achebe's final novel, "Anthills of the Savannah" (1987).
"Bruges-La-Morte, " a tale of obsessive love, is a Symbolist novel, perhaps the Symbolist novel.
In that novel, the eighties were not merely a discrete historical period and so the book was not a historical novel because the fictional material (love of money, excess of all kinds, fashionable drug abuse, political opportunism, the scythe of AIDS) so easily spilled beyond its temporal borders.
It will be an adaptation of Ronan Bennett's novel "The Catastrophist, " a love story set against the Belgian Congo's decolonisation in the 1960s.
This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.
Secular, worldly, self-questioning and ironic, Israel's most contentious writer may have written his most important novel yet, a searing account of a marriage, two sons and a doomed love affair from the six-day war in 1967 to an army operation in the occupied territories in 2003.
Jaggi said the novel was "about guilt and atonement and how love transforms people's conceptions of themselves and what they've done".
Based on an English novel by famous Indian writer RK Narayan, Guide is the story of a tourist guide who falls in love with a married woman.
Although for most of the story the two are parted, Will's pining for his true love should provide the novel with its narrative drive.
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