Fiza Pathan Publishing OPC Private Limited and Fiza Pathan are proud to announce that CLASSICS: Why and how we can encourage children to read them has been named a FINALIST in the 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards. The final awards will be announced on July 1, 2017. The Press Release from CLC Awards is given below. Congratulations to all authors who made the FINALIST … [Read more...] about CLASSICS a FINALIST in the 2017 Literary Classics Book Awards
Review of Mrs. Pooter’s Diary by Keith Waterhouse
Review of Mrs. Pooter’s Diary by Keith Waterhouse Reviewed by Fiza Pathan After reading the classic novel The Diary of a Nobody by the Grossmith brothers, I was very keen to read Keith Waterhouse’s take on the book through the eyes of Mrs. Pooter and her diary. I ordered the book from Amazon, and I was lucky to get one of the last few copies of the book, which was originally … [Read more...] about Review of Mrs. Pooter’s Diary by Keith Waterhouse
Review of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
Review of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick Reviewed by Fiza Pathan Spinster by Kate Bolick is one of the most enriching and well written nonfiction book that I have had the pleasure to read this year. I found this book in my local library’s bookshelf and I just had to borrow it. It’s a heavy read with a lot of in-depth analysis of situations, personality … [Read more...] about Review of Spinster: Making a Life of One’s Own by Kate Bolick
Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri Reviewed by Fiza Pathan It would not be an exaggeration if I say that In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri was one of the most different books I’ve read in my life. It is Jhumpa Lahiri’s first nonfiction piece actually penned in Italian and then translated into English surprisingly not by Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, but by … [Read more...] about Review of In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
When I was twenty years old and still in college my friend Tanya and I would often conduct discourses and events centered on the current trends in English Literature for the English department of our college. It was on one such cold November afternoon that our English department professor gave us the VCD of the movie ‘The Namesake,’ directed by Mira Nair, to be shown in our … [Read more...] about Review of The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri