Janet Tay in today's Starmag writes about novellas - Little Books, Big Punches she calls them.She strongly recommends to local readers (as I strongly endorse!) :
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915) (read online here)
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) (read online here)
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway (1952)
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)
Two recent novellas I would add are Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach, and Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist, both shortlisted recently for the Booker prize.
I last wrote about novellas here and really do think they are a great way in to serious fiction for the reader who may be put off by the length of a full-length novel.
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3 of the more memorable novellas i read in recent years are:-
1) the house of papers - carlos maria dominguez (103 pp).it's about a book addict
2) lanzarote - michel houellebecq (87 pp). a 'right wing racist pornographer'-as some people described him.
3) hideous kinky- esther freud ( 192 pp)- an autobiographical novel set in marrakech by a daughter of lucien freud (one of my favorite western painters).
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