Tag: Martin Heidegger
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The careful book in V.V. Ganeshananthan’s ‘Brotherless Night’
V.V. Ganeshananthan’s Brotherless Night (Penguin, 2023) won the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction, highlighting its powerful storytelling. Set during Sri Lanka’s civil war, the novel follows Sashi, a Tamil medical student, as she navigates care, ethics, and history in a time of violence. A masterpiece of careful, compassionate writing.
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Architectural and uncanny shape in Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’
Benjamin Myers’s ‘Cuddy’ won the 2023 Goldsmiths Prize. In this post, I examine the importance of shape to the novel. From the plane shapes of rectangular paragraphs to the emotionally rewarding architectural shapes of Durham Cathedral. These shapes reveal the full journey; of the novel’s emotional development.