The Library has a good range of novels that you can hold and have brought over from any campus. See for example:
′Darkmans′ is a very modern book‚ set in Ashford (a ridiculously modern town)‚ about two very old−fashioned subjects: love and jealousy. It′s also a book about invasion‚ obsession‚ displacement and possession‚ about comedy‚ art‚ prescription drugs and chiropody. And the main character? The past‚ which creeps up on the present and whispers something quite dark − quite unspeakable − into its ear. (From Publisher’s website)
It is June 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come. ON CHESIL BEACH is another masterwork from Ian McEwan – a story about how the entire course of a life can be changed by a gesture not made or a word not spoken. (From Publisher’s website)
Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid. When a young American doctor, Elli Barber, comes to town to open a free clinic for the still suffering townsfolk – only to find herself struggling to convince them that she isn’t there to do the dirty work of the ‘Kampani’ – Animal plunges into a web of intrigues, scams and plots with the unabashed aim of turning events to his own advantage. Compellingly honest, entertaining and entirely without self-pity, Animal’s account lights our way into his dark world with flashes of pure joy – from the very first page all the way to the story’s explosive ending. (From Publisher’s website)
Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. He thrives on the energy of New York, his work at an elite firm, and his budding relationship. For a time, it seems that nothing will stand in the way of his meteoric rise to success. But in the wake of September 11, Changez finds his relationship crumbling and his exalted status overturned. Allegiances are subsequently unearthed, proving themselves more fundamental than money, power and maybe even love. (From Publisher’s website)
THE GATHERING is a family epic, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright’s unblinking eye. It is also a sexual history: tracing the line of hurt and redemption through three generations – starting with the grandmother, Ada Merriman – showing how memories warp and family secrets fester. This is a novel about love and disappointment, about thwarted lust and limitless desire, and how our fate is written in the body, not in the stars. (From Publisher’s website)
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