A comic book might not deserve a review. It is usually lacking literary value and is just written for teenager. But this one is different. It was written, yes, I prefer to describe it as written instead of drawn, because it is a literary piece of art instead of a comic book. An Iranian writer wrote the book, and the story follows the life of a 10-year-old girl in Iran in 1980 all through her life until she becomes a grown woman. Now, we should pretty much guess how the plot goes.
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov was the luckiest man in all of Russia according to the omniscient narrator in A Gentleman in Moscow. Considering the whole Czars Romanov family was locked up and later murdered by the Bolshevik, Count Rostov was really having the best time living in the most elegant hotel in Europe during the worst time in Russia for being an aristocrat, even against his will.
Find Me by André Aciman
How is Elio? How is Oliver? Where are they? These are probably the questions all readers of Find Me are trying anxiously to locate in the book. I was no exception. The story of Elio and Oliver in Call Me By Your Name engraved in our mind so deeply that when the sequel came out, we can’t wait to see them in person again.
Demian by Hermann Hesse
The journey of becoming an adult is the theme that most people got from Demian. However, in my opinion, it is only the tool that Herman Hesse used to demonstrate his idea of becoming or finding the self and the truth, or better yet, the true self. For Hesse, it seems oneself and the truth are interchangeable.
Brothers by Yu Hua
We hear about the dramatic transformation of China in the last decades. Still, you cannot really say you know until you read this great work of Yu Hua in which the characters will bring you through time and to experience the transformation.