10th Feb 2007
Girl with a pearl earring by Tracy Chevalier
- A fiction story based on the painting by Johannes Vermeer with the same title. The painting is also known as 'Dutch Monalisa'. Loved the description of the 17th century Holland and the other paintings by Vermeer. The characters are finely depicted.
15th Feb 2007
Stolen Lives by Malika Oufkir
- A true story based on a upper class Moroccan Oufkir family. After executing the father for the attempted murder of King Hassan II, Malika Oufkir her 5 siblings and mother are imprisoned in 1972, in a desert jail for 20 yrs. A gripping book about freedom and the will to survive in adverse conditions.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
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