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The Mad Wife by Meagan Church: Summary, Themes & Ending Explained

The Mad Wife by Meagan Church

If you’ve ever been told to smile through exhaustion or “keep up appearances,” The Mad Wife shows the hidden bill of that performance—on bodies, marriages, neighborhoods, and minds. It solves … Read more

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A Little Life Review: The Brilliant but Brutal Novel That Divides Readers

A Little Life Review 2025

Published in 2015 by Doubleday in the United States and Picador in the United Kingdom, A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara quickly became one of the most discussed works of … Read more

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami – The Haunting Love Story You Can’t Forget

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, first published in 1999 in Japan and translated into English by Philip Gabriel in 2001, is one of the author’s most intimate, melancholic, and mysterious … Read more

Why Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki is Murakami’s Most Underrated Masterpiece

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is a contemplative novel by Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2013 and later translated into English by Philip Gabriel in … Read more

Unmasking the Hidden Symbols in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle That Even Experts Missed

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is one of Haruki Murakami’s most ambitious and intricately woven novels, first published in Japan in three volumes between 1994 and 1995, later combined and translated … Read more

Why Kafka on the Shore Is Murakami’s Most Brilliant and Confusing Work

Kafka on the Shore Is Murakami’s Most Brilliant and Confusing Work?

Kafka on the Shore is a mesmerizing novel by the celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami, first published in Japan in 2002 by Shinchosha and later translated into English by Philip … Read more

Is The Vegetarian the Most Powerful Story You’ve Never Heard of? Here’s Why It Should Be

The Vegetarian the Most Powerful Story You’ve Never Heard of? Here’s Why It Should Be

The Vegetarian by Han Kang is a South Korean novel that was first published in 2007 and later translated into English by Deborah Smith in 2015. The book quickly garnered … Read more

The Hunger Angel — How Herta Müller Conveys the True Horror of Forced Labor Camps

The Hunger Angel — How Herta Müller Conveys the True Horror of Forced Labor Camps

The Hunger Angel (original title: Der Hungerengel) is a novel written by Herta Müller, a Romanian-born German author and Nobel Laureate in Literature. Published in 2009, it follows the life … Read more

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