Broken Verses: A critical review

The story of the novel tells about Asmani’s quest for her mother and her lover’s whereabouts who have been disappeared for years. After every discovery and information about their death, she gives herself a new hope of their being alive and keeps searching. The hunt takes her to the circles of literati, journalists,...

Categories: Broken verses by Shamsie. dictators and martial laws English literature English novels Kamila Shamsie political history of Pakistan

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The Forty Rules of Love: A critical Review

On the face of it, it may seem odd that love has a rule let alone forty, however, delved deep into the novel one may find that the rules are not meant to create distance, make the lovers observe formalities and be polite and sophisticated in their contact with the ‘one’ they love, rather the other way round, “ love...

Categories: Elif Shafak English literature English novels postcolonial novels The Forty Rules of Love. Turkish literature

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