Tag: dystopian
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Book Review – Private Rites by Julia Armfield
Isla, Irene and Agnes. Three sisters with a fractured relationship and tetchy dynamic, drawn back together after their father’s death. Navigating a city of perpetual rain, where the dead can’t be buried or they will actually rise again, the sisters move through, and exist in, this sodden landscape; a place where the daily produce many…
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Book Review – Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro is a story told to us by our narrator Kathy in 1990s England, as she looks back on her adolescence beginning in a picturesque, rural boarding school. As the reminiscing begins, and unfolds, this could be any adolescence; the friendships, in particular with her best friends Ruth and…
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Book Review – Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
It was a pleasure to burn. Back in school, I was lucky enough to have studied philosophy, where I was introduced to a number of profoundly impactful dystopian novels, such as 1984, Brave New World, and Animal Farm. In recent years, I often saw Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury mentioned alongside them. I finally got…
The Resting Willow 