Articles by Pranavi Sharma
Review: The Anthropologists by Aysegul Savas
A novel about people untethered by tradition, it asks existential questions that touch on how rituals and routines give life shape and meaning
Published on Jan 16, 2025 02:28 PM IST
HT reviewer Pranavi Sharma picks her favourite read of 2024
A novel that spans three decades of personal and political upheaval but is set over the course of a single two-hour walk through London
Updated on Dec 20, 2024 12:33 PM IST
Review: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The best known novel by the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature looks at the high cost that women, particularly, have to pay if they attempt to escape the rigid structures of society
Published on Oct 24, 2024 05:58 PM IST
Review: Playground by Richard Powers
Tackling everything from the future of AI to Polynesian navigation, this multi-plot saga, that has been longlisted for the Booker Prize, winds itself into the knotty depths of what it means to be human
Published on Oct 17, 2024 06:50 PM IST
Review: The Safekeep by Yael Van Der Wouden
A novel about a complex woman growing up in 1960s Netherlands when World War II is both a distant memory and an undeniable ghost in the room, The Safekeep, which is on the Booker shortlist, mirrors not the large financial dispossessions of the Holocaust but the quieter, more personal losses
Published on Oct 10, 2024 12:25 PM IST
Review: A Man of Two Faces by Viet Tanh Nguyen
More than a recounting of personal experiences, the book, described aptly as “a memoir, a history, and a memorial,” oscillates between past and present as the author juggles with the act of remembering itself
Published on Aug 29, 2024 10:36 PM IST
Review: How to Say Babylon by Safiya Sinclair
Safiya Sinclair’s memoir documents her life as a child in a strict Rastafarian household with an authoritarian father who fervently adhered to his Sinclair sect
Published on Jun 27, 2024 06:36 PM IST
Review: The Gallery by Manju Kapur
Set in Delhi and Nepal, Manju Kapur’s seventh novel makes the reader wonder if women from different economic classes can ever meet on common ground
Published on Mar 21, 2024 09:38 PM IST
Pranavi Sharma
Nehru presenting glimpses of history and of himself
Nine decades after Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the letters that were eventually collected and published as Glimpses of World History, the book continues to impress
Published on Jan 26, 2024 08:29 PM IST
Pranavi Sharma
A deliberate embrace of unhurried prose: The Other Name by Jon Fosse
In the first instalment of his Septology series, The Other Name, Norwegian author Jon Fosse looks at the blurring of the boundaries of the self and the other
Published on Dec 13, 2023 04:44 PM IST
Pranavi Sharma