I felt as if I’m listening to a grandfather who relates his personal stories. It was a long read but yet it worth all the time spent. He might not be a great writer yet his huge collection of life experiences make him a great story teller. He describes a horrific part of the human history in a way that ...

This is my first fiction by Haruki Murakami. Since I’m living in Tokyo it made me look at some things in a different perspective. For me it showed a different side of this elegant city, the side of the city that no one would ever discuss in Japan. The book also touches the complexities in Japanese society such as the ...

This is a must read for anyone who finds it hard to live in the moment. It surely was a life changer for me for only after reading first few chapters that I realized that I've been unconscious most of the time. We are either thinking about past or projecting ourselves in future all the time and we miss the ...

I read the book amidst of three assignments simply because it is one of those books that you can’t put down once you get started. The book shocked me to the core in many ways. It was the first time for me to read an Afghan book. While it talks about Afghans who got oppressed by Russians, Talibans as well ...

I truly believe that this book is highly overrated. This is considered one of the best books in the last century but reading it was a tormenting experience. I can’t believe I finished the book. The only thing that kept me going was the fact that it’s considered a master piece. Maybe I’m too dumb to understand the content. Of ...