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Good Fiction 2010: 3 Great Books
THE MUSUEM OF INNOCENCE
Already one of the most anticipated releases of the year, Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk's The Museum of Innocence (Faber), is an epic tale of an obsessive love set amidst the dizzyingmelting pot of Istanbul. The story spans three decades and the book is due to be feted with a real museum: Pamuk is said to be planning a house of ephemera that will be stocked with his protagonist's keepsakes.
HOMER AND LANGLEY
Minimalists beware: EL Doctorow's new book Homer and Langley (Little, Brown) could be your equivalent of The Shining. Based on the lives of the Collyer brothers (notorious hoarders and recluses who seldom ventured from their New York townhouse and eventually met their deaths as a result of the toxic environs they created) the story functions as a narrative prism through which Doctorow refracts a century of American life.
The late John Wyndham's follow-up to Day of the Triffids will soon see the light: Plan for Chaos(Penguin) weaves a spine-tinglingly dark plot around the suspicious deaths of a series of identical women, who are eventually discovered to be part of a sinister plan to clone a master race.
03.12.2010
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