A-List #8, The: Heart of Glass: An A-List Novel (A-List)

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The New York Times bestselling series about the scandalous lives of rich and famous teens in Beverly Hills, California.High school is officially over and that means one thing for the A-List: time to party! But the celebration is cut short when unlikely pair Anna and Cammie find themselves in an even more unlikely situation--caught trespassing on a celeb's beach estate--and are forced to don steel handcuffs along with their Tiffany tennis bracelets.Luckily, the girls are spared a summer stuck in tacky orange jumpsuits when their hotshot lawyer lands them a cushy community service gig: helping plan a fabulous charity fashion show! But while it may seem like a plush job, Anna and Cammie are in for a challenge. Can the girls handle the pressure of the vicious fashion world? Or will they fall to pieces faster than a cheap Louis Vuitton knockoff?

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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2007-05-31

In the last book in the A-LIST series (American Beauty: An A-List Novel (A-List #7)), the gang had finally graduated while discovering some juicy secrets. Cammie had discovered more information on what really happened to her mother. Sam was finally reunited with Eduardo, and Anna met Caine, who was nothing like her boyfriend, Ben. And Ben's dirty little secret wasn't a secret any longer.

The A-Listers are back again in HEART OF GLASS, and this time with a little twist.

Anna and Cammie have to work together - that's right, together - on a charity fashion show. But they got off easy, since this little community service project was the result of getting caught trespassing on a celebrity's estate. No worries, these two can work together, right?

Anna and Caine are getting a little closer, while Ben doesn't seem to worry so much. While Adam and Cammie are trying to make things work, we're hoping that opposites really do attract. Sam is still trying to adjust to living with Poppy, and maybe trying to get rid of her at the same time, while making sure nothing goes wrong with her and Eduardo. And Dee, well, she's Dee, trying to get back on her feet.

The gang is back and it's going to be one sizzling summer.

Eighth in the series, HEART OF GLASS is still filled with secrets, lies, and plenty of drama. The best thing about this series is that the material is never old and it still keeps you guessing and on the edge of your seat. The cast is still great and you just love Anna more and more after each book. Lets just say that HEART OF GLASS is more appealing than another episode of a certain teen drama on a new network - at least I'm experiencing something I haven't seen before!

Reviewed by: Randstostipher "tallnlankyrn" Nguyen

Gotta have it.......2007-05-24

I am crazy over this series ... i think that this book had to be the most mouth dropping one ... i almost feel like zoey can't write these books fast enough ... i feel like i can identify w/ every character on one level or another ... zoey dean delivers everytime you read one of her books

Pretty Good..........2007-05-17

I've been following the A-List novels since they came out a few years ago. There were tons of these book series floating around--the rich, cliquey girls who seemed to be mean and exclusionary--there were the Gossip Girls, the Clique... you get my drift.

Of all the books of that sort, A-List was the one that caught my eye. I followed it religiously for a while, but I got to one particular book in the series and almost gave up on it. The name-dropping and overall snobbery frustrated me to the point that I almost didn't give a flying ice cream cone about Anna and Ben or Dee's increasing psychosis.

Dean has redeemed herself with this last one, though. The characters are proving to be much more dimensional than first thought, and although they still tend to get themselves into outrageous situations, they are handling them with class and the kind of assertiveness I wish I'd had as a teenager. I really enjoyed this last book and I am looking forward to the "next juicy A-List novel."

Heart of Glass.......2007-05-14

Gabriela R. 5/11/07

Heart of Glass, Zoey Dean, ISBN: 0-316-01096-0

If you like Drama, Fashion, and Love then the Heart of Glass is the book you want to read. The main characters are Anna, Sam, Cammie, and Dee! Anna and Cammie got arrested for trespassing on a beach estate, but since their dad's hired really good lawyers they only got community service. Which is to help plan a charity fashion show. Since Anna started hanging out with Caine. Cammie decides to go and hang out with Ben hers and Anna's ex-boyfriend because Adam is camping and she just wants to have a little fun! Cammie finds out what really happened to her mother.

Sam suspects that Poppy her step-mother is cheating on her father the famous Jackson Sharpe so she gets her friend Parker to flirt with her so she can see if Poppy would really cheat. Anna and Cammie have to work with a girl named Champagne on the fashion show, but everyone says that she is a thief! Anna see Caine at a place call the Firehouse dancing on stage with no shirt on, she figures out that he is just like Ben always keeping secrets from her! But Ben is determined to fight for Anna!!!

Right before the fashion Show a dress is missing, everyone thinks it is Champagne but Cammie is on the case to find the real thief...will Sam find out if Poppy is really cheating on her dad... who will Anna choose Ben or Caine?

I really liked this book it was a page-turner because you want to see what will happen next. I recommend this book to girls 11 and up because this book talks a lot about fashion and girl problems!

Heart of Glass.......2007-05-14

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If you like Drama, Fashion, and Love then the Heart of Glass is the book you want to read. The main characters are Anna, Sam, Cammie, and Dee! Anna and Cammie got arrested for trespassing on a beach estate, but since their dad's hired really good lawyers they only got community service. Which is to help plan a charity fashion show. Since Anna started hanging out with Caine Cammie decides to go and hang out with Ben hers and Anna's ex-boyfriend because Adam is camping and she just wants to have a little fun! Cammie finds out what really happened to her mother.

Sam suspects that Poppy her step-mother is cheating on her father the famous Jackson Sharpe so she gets her friend Parker to flirt with her so she can see if Poppy would really cheat. Anna and Cammie have to work with a girl named Champagne on the fashion show, but everyone says that she is a thief! Anna see Caine at a place call the Firehouse dancing on stage with no shirt on, she figures out that he is just like Ben always keeping secrets from her! But Ben is determined to fight for Anna!!!

Right before the fashion Show a dress is missing, everyone thinks it is Champagne but Cammie is on the case to find the real thief...will Sam find out if Poppy is really cheating on her dad... who will Anna choose Ben or Caine?

I really liked this book it was a page-turner because you want to see what will happen next. I recommend this book to girl 11 and up because this book talks a lot about fashion and girl problems!

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Should not be missed!
A much-underrated statement of Japanese-American identity.

Yokohama, California
Toshio Mori
Manufacturer: University of Washington Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0295961678

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Should not be missed!.......2002-03-19

This book was suppose to come out in print in 1941, but due to the attack on Pearl Harbor and anti-Japanese propaganda, it postponed its release until 1949. Toshio Mori is a master of storytelling. These collections of short stories should be with such classics as Hemingway and Saroyan. Yokohoma, California is both heart-felt and humorous. It is one of the best books on the Asian American experience.

A much-underrated statement of Japanese-American identity........1996-05-24

Even though Sau-ling Cynthia Wong notes that "no other Asian-American writer since has been able to match Mori's community portraits for mellowness," his portraits of Japanese-American life just before World War II show the strain of a double identity at that time. (Even the title itself serves to illustrate the cultural binary.) Mori's prose is sparse, yet it is not cold. In all of the characters, from Sessue Matoi, the philosopher who "must be drunk and sober at the same time," to "the woman who makes swell donuts," there is a warmth and humanity throughout every story, even while the hints of the coming war begin to appear

Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Crime Files)

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Great overview, but horrible scholarship

Contemporary American Crime Fiction (Crime Files)
Hans Bertens , and Theo D'haen
Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333674553

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This accessible, lively, and informative study gives a clear, comprehensive overview of recent trends in American crime fiction. Building on a discussion of the immediate predecessors, Bertens and D'haen focus on the work of popular and award-winning authors of the last 15 years. Particular attention is given to writers who have reworked established conventions and explored new directions, especially women and those from ethnic minorities.

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Great overview, but horrible scholarship.......2007-05-22

Curious as I am about the evolution of my genre, I became extremely interested in reading of its chronology and development, particularly in the last 30 years. Thus, it was with great academic eagerness that I took to reading CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN CRIME FICTION by Hans Bertens and Theo D'Haen.

The result? A good timeline study with heavy doses of liberal faux-intellectualism masquerading as sound, literary scholarship.

It was interesting to read the genesis and maturation of several series characters, ranging from Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone to Lawrence Block's Matthew Scudder, among others. The authors do a good job of chronicling each series character book by book, thereby giving us a reliable timeline of their development. The conclusions they draw about the characters' growth are agreeable, such as Grafton's Millhone becoming less self-assured and more vulnerable as the series progresses, to Robert Parker's Spenser basically never changing from the first book to the last. Plenty more solid conclusions abound, and it's helpful to read the panorama of the most prominent mystery series characters in this way. It aids in understanding, even if only in a small way, the possible evolution of the writer as well.

That said, the authors attempt to deepen their psychoanalysis with nothing more than their own assumptions, never taking the time to provide any primary or secondary material to back up their claims. At one point, they claim that Hawk, Spenser's African-American side-kick, is a reflection of Spenser's "black inner-self" kept in check by the "good white self" inside Spenser. Huh? The authors proceed to Freudianize Hawk and Spenser's relationship further, which strikes me as reading a bit too much into a Robert Parker book.

Among other claims, they also assert that Don LeLillo's LIBRA inspired James Ellroy, that the Branch Davidian fiasco in Waco inspired mystery books of similar subject matter, and that the Mystery Writers of America snubbed Sara Paretsky in the major awards because she's imbued her series character, V.I. Warshawski, with the most vocal feminist voice of any female character. Again, they make all these assertions but provide ZERO documentation to back it up. The authors may very well be correct in their judgments, but the reader would never know because of the lack of scholarly support.

In the end, I'd encourage you to buy this book if you're interested in getting some really well-done timelines on some of the most significant series characters of the last 30 years. Be prepared, however, to stomach their pseudo-scholarship just to get to the good stuff.

The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Class

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The Contemporary American Crime Novel: Race, Ethnicity, Class
Andrew Pepper
Manufacturer: Routledge
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ASIN: 1579583520

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As America's ethnic and racial character undergoes explosive transformation, its crime fictions trace, contest and celebrate the changes. The Contemporary American Crime Novel is an exciting book that offers a comprehensive review of recent developments in American crime fiction, exploring America's dynamic, fragmented multicultural landscape and how it has transformed the codes and conventions of the crime novel. Featured authors include James Ellroy, James Lee Burke, Sara Paretsky, Barbara Wilson, Chester Himes, Walter Mosley, Faye Kellerman, Alex Abella, and Chang-Rae Lee.

The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield

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The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield
Ray B. Browne
Manufacturer: Popular Press 1
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ASIN: 0879724021

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In the world of crime fiction, Arthur W. Upfield stands among the giants. His detective-inspector Napoleon Bonaparte, is one of the most memorable of all crime fighters. Upfield was an independent, fiercely self-assertive ex-Britisher, who loved Australia, especially the Outback. In many ways Upfield became Outback Australia—the “Spirit of Australia.”

Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story

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Delightful Murder: A Social History of the Crime Story
Ernest Mandel
Manufacturer: Univ of Minnesota Pr
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ASIN: 0816614636

Don't Point That Thing at Me! (Library Crime Classics)

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now for something completely different
Like nothing I'd ever read
Indulgent, witty fun
Oh, how I wanted to like this book.
Things!

Don't Point That Thing at Me! (Library Crime Classics)
Kyril Bonfiglioli
Manufacturer: International Polygonics
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ASIN: 1558820752

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This hilarious dark-humored crime thriller features the Honorable Charlie Mortdecai, degenerate aristocrat and acknowledged coward. With his thuggish manservant Jock, he endures all manner of nastiness involving secret police, stolen paintings, and dead clients--all to make a dishonest living.

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now for something completely different.......2006-06-15

"Don't Point that Thing at Me" reads like nothing else. The closest approximation isn't in print: It's the televised Blackadder series, which has a similiar misanthropic anti-hero who can't get a break. The hilarious misadventures of amoral, cowardly, selfish but brilliant Charles Mortdecai (get it? death and decay right in the name) is the antidote to any overly saccharine British cozy.

I've just finished Bonfiglioli's dark debut novel, and I can't wait to read the sequel, "After You With the Pistol." Too bad there are only three novels in the series!

Like nothing I'd ever read.......2006-02-24

A friend gave me 'Don't Point that Thing at Me' and recommended it highly. He didn't explain why it was good, but merely placed it in my hand and urged me to read. I now understand the difficulty in communicating why this book is so wonderful. It is the characterization that shines in ways that is not simple to understand or describe.

The novel begins as Charlie Mortdecai, the clever main character, puts one over on the police in a light-hearted fashion. Only a few scenes later, Charlie is being tortured by these same people. I was surprised by the harsh turn and wasn't sure how I felt about it (although Charlie took it with grace and kept the British end up). At this point I knew I wasn't reading generic mystery fiction.

The novel swings like a pendulum between bright and murky so quickly that it is often bewildering. If strict plot is what you read a mystery for, avoid this novel as it has many plot holes and a conclusion that is fairly improbable. If, on the other hand, you enjoy oddly compelling characters (as unique as Suskind's Grenouille from Perfume or Mcdonald's Fletch), this book is a real and rare find.

Indulgent, witty fun.......2005-10-18

As has been noted, if you're looking for a traditional detective story, you won't be served well by this book. Yes, there's a mystery (though the plot is a bit convoluted), but the real draw is the narrator -- a debauched cad of an art dealer -- and the author's deft passages:

"Your mother and father met only once. Money changed hands. A dime, probably."

It's a guilty pleasure of novel, and while it can't quite compete with Hammett or Chandler, it's not fundamentally the same sort of novel. In the end, I didn't care who killed who; I was just sad this series of clever, lurid misadventures came to an end. Time to order the next one.

Oh, how I wanted to like this book........2005-10-11

Because of Leo Carey's wry, admiring, melancholy essay in THE NEW YORKER, I grabbed this novel and its two sequels when I found them at a local used bookstore, and oh, how I wanted to like them more than I ended up doing. But they're just not as good as the hype. They drift all over the place [to be fair, Carey admitted that devotees of mysteries would find these books too undisciplined], and the narrator's aggressively amoral personality -- imagine P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster crossed with Jonathan Gash's Lovejoy -- can wear on one after a while. The plots are made of Swiss cheese, at best, and these books are also sadly dated in their views of women. Maybe it's because I read the Lovejoy books before these -- if I had come to them without knowing about Lovejoy, I would have enjoyed them more.

Things!.......2004-11-12

A quick, dark, and amusing read. The writing is clever and results in more than a few chuckles (although the mystery and solution is fairly average). I must admit, this was a gift from my mostly illiterate spouse or I otherwise wouldn't have read it. For once, I'm glad for the old hen because I enjoyed this book. Didn't much care for her pithy inscription though ("I mean it, Love Bess"). Nevertheless (and as is the norm), the last laugh was on her when I changed the That to Those and added an s to Thing in the title. A line through her inscription and the replacement "I'm talking about your BIG buttocks" resulted in yet another book soaring past my regular-sized noggin'. Recommended (the book, not the spouse).

Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction

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New Noir

Neon Noir: Contemporary American Crime Fiction
Woody Haut
Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail
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ASIN: 1852425474

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Neon Noir, the follow-up to Woody Haut's highly regarded Pulp Culture, brings the story of American crime fiction and the related films up to date. From the Kennedy assassination to the Vietnam War and Watergate, through Reaganomics to Irangate and Whitewater, Neon Noir is a roller-coaster ride through the American nightmare. Haut investigates the dark side of America through the work of writers such as James Ellroy, Elmore Leonard, Walter Mosley, James Lee Burke, Lawrence Block, James Sallis, George P. Pelecanos, Charles Willeford, Jerome Charyn, Sara Paretsky, Vicki Hendricks, KC Constantine, George V Higgins and James Crumley.

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New Noir.......2000-06-21

Like many people, I often wondered why more fim noir films aren't made. Neon Noir gives a simple answer: they are. It examines how film noir has changed since the 50's and who makes them. It also analyzes contemporary film noir and attempts to explain why film noir has changed as it has.

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Know your history, know your healing
Morales mirrors other works

REMEDIOS CL
Aurora Levins Morales , and Aurora Levins Morales
Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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ASIN: 0807065161

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Know your history, know your healing.......2004-05-22

Interconnection is real. Earth is real. The violence of patriarchy, colonization, anti-semitism, and genocide are real. Our lives continue to be shaped by these violences; both intergenerational and contemporary. Healing grows organically and is nurtured by roots of understanding, storytelling, compassion, courage.

These are some of the ideas that clarified for me in reading this wonderful book full of stories that saved my soul from amnesia, numbness, and ignorance. I am a white woman now on her own path of unearthing stories from my past that can tell me who I am, where I come from, and how to heal a legacy of racism and sexism that still persists.

Read about Jigonsaseh, a Seneca woman alive around 1560 who served as a peacemaker who helped to form the Iroquois Confederacy. Read about the Hammer of Witches, a treatise written in Germany in 1487 that outlined various marks and signs by which a woman could be recognized to be a witch and how to torture the Devil out of her. Read about the 1097 invasion of Muslim Syria by the Franj, Christian invaders from the north and south.

Most of all, enjoy the beautiful prose of Levins Morales...
"We are the ancestors of whom no record has been kept. We are trace elements in your bodies, minerals coloring your eyes, residue in your fingernails. You were not named for us. You don't know the places where our bones are, but we are in your bones. Because of us, you have relatives among the many tribes. You have cousins on the reservations. Do not forget how wide your roots are in this America. Do not forget." (92).

Morales mirrors other works.......2000-09-26

As she does in Medicine Stories, Morales involves an innovative form in her writing. While following a chronological timeline, she weaves together many historically based stories. What at first seems confusing, eventually melds to show that Morales is writing about the women left out of history. She presents personal stories about each woman and crimes of history. Then she adds herbs used in healing to supplement her intent to be a historic curator, helping to heal the problems in history.

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The unexpected ending of this novel makes it unique.
Review by a traditional Indian girl
Ke Jin
Excellent
I'm sure the reader will be overwhelmed!

Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves
Moncy Pothen
Manufacturer: Poorna Publications
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ASIN: 813000528X
Release Date: 2006-08-01

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Extremism, now more widely termed, terrorism, is on the lips of every human being and on the front pages of the world s newspapers every day. But we still long for love and love still thrives. This poetic novel by Moncy Pothen plunges us directly into the forests and paddy fields of Kerala, India from the 1960s to the 1980s, describes the delicate and heartfelt awakening of love in two lives, and has roots in ancient Indian tradition. Can you forgive a terrorist, if he has participated in the murder of your own father? Like the heroine, Ahalya, we live in complicated times, where black and white give way to shades of gray, and in Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves, we hold our breath to witness which will win the battle, love or hate? Like the hero, Arjunan, we are fighting to win that battle within ourselves.

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The unexpected ending of this novel makes it unique........2006-05-06

The natural beauty of an Indian village has been portrayed realistically in this novel even with the tiniest detail that the reader could view it as if in a movie in front.

Moncy Pothen's hero, Arjunan, is a typical village guy learns Hindu traditions and holy books like Bhagavad-Gita from his parents, in his childhood, and the ancient hero with his same name, Arjuna, inspires him. It is well explained how the unexpected events change his whole path of life when he decides to participate in the social reform. He involves in an extremist group by believing only an armed up rise of the common men would change the corrupt society. He is an educated man, with a respectable job, family and social status, sacrifices everything for the rescue of the exploited and the down trodden. When he returns from jail, regretful about his past, the society does not forgive him and allow him to socialise normally. His good deeds, importance and intention are being scrutinized for a long while.

A woman's helplessness when she looses all hopes in life; at the time of making difficult decisions; when she has to support others in distress and also when she has to choose between the right and the wrong: is shown clearly by the character Ahalya. How the power of woman can be rejuvenated by a node or a small support can be witnessed in the book at a later stage. The woman's role in the society is well explained with many woman characters and it proves without doubt that the woman is not a weaker section in the society and she can stand along side with man in every activity.

Human mind is described with expertise in this book. The way people think and react at life's different circumstances is highlighted realistically. Humour is also applied in various occasions as a part and parcel of the Kerala society. The countless characters in this book represents the cross section of a society, which includes members belong to the countless castes and creeds in India. Their life harmony and the way in which religious fanaticism tries to disrupt it are also explained well. It proves that extremism, whether it is political or religious, is harmful to the society and the common men always stand against that.

The Author shows that love is a combined feeling of security, courage, jealousy, possessiveness, oneness, sharing and caring. True love can face any obstacle when together. Even the smallest of things done for the other can make a big difference.

The unexpected ending of this story also makes it unique.

Review by a traditional Indian girl.......2006-03-28

First of all, as soon as I completed the last lines of the book, tears started rolling down my cheeks. I really wonder why it happened. I think the climax has such an effect on me because basically I am a traditional Indian girl and all Indian girls are same in their heart though some act as if they are not. Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves is a realistic book which gives a good idea about the social and economic conditions of people in Kerala since independence and it wonderfully portraits the feelings of a female heart.

Ke Jin.......2006-03-26

I assume that this book will be a wonderful literary experience to the readers around the world. Mr.Pothen is a kind and nice person. He really impressed me with his story and his excellent writing skills.

Excellent .......2006-03-26

Mr. Moncy Pothen in his Novel, `Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves,' narrates, with ease, the rhythms of uncared, stranded lives in bitterness since the dawn of independence.

In his entire story, he spotted the starving world for love with its human touch in real life. Through out the tale, the panoramic expressions are the aerial outcome of the true nature with the living world and the ecosystem.

We can see the pompous days of feudalism are ending and a new age of scarcity or humbleness awakening and it is the hero, an unexpected source that was instrumental to the fall, comes for the aid with attempts to rescue. In the book, we experience the success of humanity above all the ideologies. It also portrays the political, social and cultural scenario in Kerala, the tiny South Indian State, in its true state.

I wish the domain made by the Author be a great success.

I'm sure the reader will be overwhelmed!.......2006-03-25

Those who lived in Kerala in the Sixties/Seventies would know what it means to be a Naxal. How many young men/women have sacrificed their lives on the altar of this utopian cause! How many families have suffered, some violently and some in silence! All for a cause that just fizzled out within no time and vanished from people's memory without a trace.

It's not a hitherto unexplored theme, but to my knowledge past initiatives have been in Malayalam language. Here Moncy uniquely portrays the life in a typical Kerala village, its social structure, its pulses and the swings. I'm sure the reader will be overwhelmed by the sentiments Moncy has successfully depicted without losing its innocence and flavor.
Kurien V.
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