Prameela K
Published on: 1 January 2024, 02:42 pm
The Leaflet presents to you a curated list of books from 2023, perhaps for 2024. Happy reading!
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Read Part 2 here.
A review of books read and enjoyed in the previous year is a nod to what books can do. Broaden the imagination, help one cope with difficult circumstances with humour, provide a new lens to view an old problem and give one a sense of continuity with a distant past.
Books can also build a sense of community with other cultures and civilisations and help you see that the stranger is not so strange after all.
They can also reverse a Gramscian dictum and be about cultivating the 'optimism of the intellect'.
Here is a list of 2023, perhaps for 2024.
Seven moons of Maali Almeida, Shehan Karunatilaka
This book is a fictional coming to terms with the modern Sri Lankan history of disappearances, murder and civil war told by Maali Almeida, a young queer man who worked as a war photographer and was killed.
