The Subtext of Friendship in “Best Of Friends” – Chicago Review of Books

The Subtext of Friendship in “Best Of Friends” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] The best thing about Kamila Shamsie’s eighth novel, Best of Friends, is the story isn’t hinged on a friendship gnarled with sexual, bodily, or intellectual envy. The conflict is more nuanced, primarily marred by a class difference, but more implicitly by the contradictions that exist within a life-long friendship. At times, the characters feel … Read more

The Difficult Balance of Text and Subtext in “Klara and the Sun” – Chicago Review of Books

The Difficult Balance of Text and Subtext in “Klara and the Sun” – Chicago Review of Books

[ad_1] Kazuo Ishiguro is an author at the top of his craft. But rather than rest on his laurels, the knighted, Booker Award winning, and Nobel laureate author is back with Klara and the Sun, his first new work since winning the Nobel Prize in literature in 2017, and his first novel since 2015’s The … Read more