And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini – A Review from Booktopia’s Andrew Cattanach

Posted on May 18, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Bestselling author Khaled Hosseini returns to our shelves with his hugely anticipated third novel. On the eve of its release, Booktopia’s Andrew Cattanach casts an eye over it.

Maya Angelou once said “The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise”. Whether Khaled Hosseini has heard that sage advice is unlikely. That he shares the same view, however, is all but certain. His new novel And The Mountains Echoed shares the same heartbeat as his previous works, but instead of reaching for the stars he appears to have developed through regression, at least from an emotional standpoint. His latest offering, while boasting a globe hopping narrative and an array of multi-generational characters, is a measured, tender, and still powerful exploration of what makes us tick.

Hosseini is one of the world’s most celebrated writers, with a body of work that includes the worldwide best seller The Kite Runner and the acclaimed 2007 book A Thousand Splendid Suns. Both books examined the inner workings of the human condition. Powerful themes of loss, love, power, redemption, all set against the turbulent backdrop of Afghan history. Spanning generations, both books came with heart-wrenching emotional conflict, epic in every sense of the word.

While And The Mountains Echoed is a weave of incredibly powerful tales, Hosseini skilfully pulls back the reigns on an all out emotional roller coaster, allowing the story to unravel bit by bit. We begin in 1952, as Kaboor, is telling his 10-year-old son, Abdullah, and little girl, Pari, a fantastical tale about a child taken from its family under wrenching circumstances. The father makes a brutal pilgrimage to mountains to rescue his son, only to find the boy is being raised in paradise. He leaves him there.

It sets the scene, as much of the book chronicles the agonizing choices we all make in extraordinary circumstances around the people we love.

Young Pari is swiftly cut away from her poor family to join an upwardly mobile one, triggering the novel’s slingshot trajectory between Afghanistan, France, Greece and California and back and forth across the decades up to the present.

Pari may be the book’s protagonist but she is not its obvious star. Between an alcoholic poet married to a closeted gay man, a surly but heroic nurse, a sentimental man-servant, a selfless plastic surgeon, and others variously introduced via posthumous letters, media interviews and sweeping recollections, Pari barely makes a peep once the novel gets a move on.

I won’t go any further, but it’s not as chaotic as it sounds. The ball keeps rolling and each character enters and leaves at the perfect time, never halting the pace and progress of the novel.

Many have questioned if Khaled Hosseini could continue his impossibly high standards after his previous two works. And incredibly he has, with a beautiful, confident novel told by a true master. The Kite Runner might have been a fluke, A Thousand Splendid Suns a coincidence, but And The Mountains Echoed will surely solidify Hosseini as one of the greatest novelists in the world today.

Click here to buy And The Mountains Echoed from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

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Andrew Cattanach is a contributor to The Booktopia Blog and was shortlisted for The Age Short Story Prize. He enjoys reading, writing and sleeping though finds it difficult to do them all at once.

You can read his other posts here, and follow his ramblings on twitter at @andrew__cat.

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New Tim Winton novel due in October 2013.

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Huge news this afternoon with the announcement that a new novel by Tim Winton will be published on 14 October 2013.

“I’m delighted to be able to announce that on October 14 this year we will be publishing a new novel by Tim Winton, his first since the Miles Franklin Award-winning Breath, ” Ben Ball, Publishing Director, Penguin Books Australia revealed today.

“Each new work from Tim is a major event in Australian publishing and a privilege to be involved with. Eyrie is one of the very few books I’ve ever read that can genuinely be said to change the way you look at the world. It goes straight at the big questions, and like the greatest contemporary novels, expands its readers’ understanding of what it’s like to be alive now.”

Eyrie tells the story of Tom Keely, a man who’s lost his bearings in middle age and is now holed up in a flat at the top of a grim highrise, looking down on the world he’s fallen out of love with. He’s cut himself off, until one day he runs into some neighbours: a woman he used to know when they were kids, and her introverted young boy. The encounter shakes him up in a way he doesn’t understand. Despite himself, Keely lets them in.

What follows is a heart-stopping, groundbreaking novel for our times – funny, confronting, exhilarating and haunting – populated by unforgettable characters. It asks how, in an impossibly compromised world, we can ever hope to do the right thing.

Tim Winton continues to cast a huge shadow across the Australian literary landscape. Earlier this year he was voted runner up in Booktopia’s search for Australia’s Favourite Novelist. The results can be seen here.

His novel Cloudstreet was voted Australia’s Favourite Novel in a poll run by Booktopia in 2010, click here for all the details.

You can also see Tim Winton’s author page at Booktopia, with all his books, bibliography and a profile of the celebrated novelist.

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Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

In one of the most exciting releases of the year, Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John, Helen Trinca explores the life of one of Australia’s greatest writers, the reclusive Madeline St John.

Trinca, currently the Managing Director of The Australian, has tackled other weighty topics in the past with her acclaimed books Waterfront: The Battle that Changed Australia and Better than Sex: How a Whole Generation Got Hooked on Work. But these were public stories with public figures. Madeline St John on the other hand was a mysterious soul, a near hermit at the peak of her powers despite her celebrated works altering the Australian literary landscape forever. Little is known of her struggles with fame and fortune, which didn’t come until she was in her fifties with the release of The Women in Black in 1993.

At the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist, but Ms Medway peered down at Madeleine during her entrance interview in 1957 and announced: ‘You know dear, I think you might write.’

Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this moving account of a remarkable writer. After the death of her mother when Madeleine was just twelve, she struggled to find her place in the world. Estranging herself from her family, and from Australia, she lived for a time in the US before moving to London where Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer, Bruce Beresford, Barry Humphries and Clive James were making their mark. When The Women in Black was published, it became clear what a marvellous writer Madeleine St John was.

Click here to by Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

Don’t miss Bruce Beresford talking to Helen Trinca about trying to turn his friend Madeleine St John’s novel The Women in Black into a film.

Click here to see the video.

Praise for Madeline St John:

‘Seductive, hilarious, brilliantly observed, this novel shimmers with wit and tenderness.’
Helen Garner on The Women in Black

‘This book is like the perfect, vintage little black dress. It’s beautifully constructed, it evokes another time while being mysteriously classic and up-to-date, and it makes you feel happy. I love it.’
Kaz Cooke on The Women in Black

‘A major minor masterpiece, a witty and poignant snapshot of Sydney the year before yesterday.’
Barry Humphries on The Women in Black

‘It is a deliciously spare piece of prose that deftly and sympathetically mines the psychology of a break-up.’
Adelaide Advertiser on The Essence of the Thing

The Women In Black
by Madeline St John

At the very end of the Ladies’ Frocks Departments, past Cocktail Frocks, there was something very special, something quite, quite wonderful; but it wasn’t for everybody: that was the point. Because there, at the very end, there was a lovely arch, on which was written in curly letters Model Gowns.

In the famous F.G. Goode department store, Lisa is the new Sales Assistant (Temporary) in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks. She is about to meet Magda, the glamorous Continental refugee and guardian of the rose-pink cave of Model Gowns.

Click here to buy The Women In Black from Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore

The Essence of the Thing
by Madeline St John

Nicola should never have stepped out to buy that pack of cigarettes because the man she discovers in her living room when she returns is not the adorable, straightforward, devoted Jonathan with whom she has been sharing her life and flat for the past six years. That Jonathan would never have simply, unilaterally, decided that she should, as he abruptly put it, ‘move out.’

So a shocked, grief-stricken Nicola packs her bags and sets out bravely on the bumpy course that will take her fro the hellish end of an affair to the essence of the thing. With her comic timing and tender vision the brilliant Madeleine St John, author of The Women in Black, takes us into the changing nature of the human heart.

Click here to buy The Essence of the Thing from Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore

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Claire Vaye Watkins wins U.S. Story Prize for short fiction

Posted on March 14, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Author Claire Vaye Watkins was awarded the Story Prize in New York this morning for her debut collection, Battleborn. As winner she receives $20,000.

She faced some tough competition for the prize, with celebrated writers Dan Chaon and Junot Diaz also on the shortlist. Dan Chaon was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, while Junot Diaz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for the incredible The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Neither Chaon or Diaz left empty-handed however, collecting a cool $5,000 for their works Stay Awake, and This Is How You Lose Her

The judges wrote in a release about the prize, “In the ten stories in her first collection, Claire Vaye Watkins takes an unflinching look at the apocalyptic dimensions of our culture’s boom-or-bust obsession…. She’s a fierce and original new writer, and Battleborn is an astonishing short story collection.”

This year marks the ninth anniversary of the Story Prize,  the most significant award in the U.S. dedicated to collections of short fiction.

About the Finalists

Claire Vaye Watkins was born and raised in the Mojave Desert. Her collection of short stories, Battleborn, won a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame and earned Watkins inclusion on the National Book Foundation’s list of “5 Under 35.” A graduate of the University of Nevada Reno, She earned her MFA from the Ohio State University, where she was a Presidential Fellow. Her stories and essays have appeared in Granta, One Story, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train, Best of the West 2011, Best of the Southwest 2013, and elsewhere. An assistant professor at Bucknell University, Watkins is also the co-director, with Derek Palacio, of the Mojave School, a non-profit creative writing workshop for teenagers in rural Nevada.

Dan Chaon is the author of Stay Awake, Among the Missing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and You Remind Me of Me, which was named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly, among other publications. Chaon’s fiction has appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Short Stories, Pushcart Prize, and The O. Henry Prize Stories. He has been a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction, and he was the recipient of the 2006 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Chaon lives in Cleveland, Ohio, and teaches at Oberlin College, where he is the Pauline M. Delaney Professor of Creative Writing.

Junot Díaz was born in the Dominican Republic and is the author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; as well as This is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist; and the critically acclaimed Drown. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, and numerous Best American Short Stories anthologies. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award among other accolades. A graduate of Rutgers College, Díaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Click here to buy the winner of The 2012 The Short Story Prize Battleborn from
Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore

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The A&R Australian Classics Series – Buy two and get a free bag!

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Check out the beautiful Australian Classics series, with a special offer from Booktopia.

A&R Publishers launched in 1888 and by 1895 had a bestseller with Banjo Paterson’s The Man From Snowy River. The success of A&R confirmed the existence of Australian literary talent – and an audience hungry for Australian content.

The company went on to publish some of the most famous names in Australian literature, including Henry Lawson, Norman Lindsay, CJ Dennis and May Gibbs.

In March 2013 HarperCollins is bringing these unique Australian stories to a new generation of readers with the launch of the first set of A&R Classics, a collection of 12 titles that celebrate the authors who have contributed to the cultural identity of a nation.

See the titles chosen for the first set here.

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Booktopia has a two brilliant offers for lovers of classic Australian Fiction.

Just buy two of any books in the series and get one of these beautiful carry bags, perfect for showing off your love of Australian Literature to your envious friends and family.

Also, buy any book in the A&R Australian Classics range before 31st March 2013 and go into the draw to win a pack containing all twelve books in the series.

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The Childhood of Jesus by J.M. Coetzee – A Review by Andrew Cattanach

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Rarely does a blurb prepare you so perfectly for what you are about to read.

The Childhood of Jesus is not like any other novel you have read.

And it is with the same forthright vagueness, if there is such a thing, that J.M. Coetzee tells a beautiful tale of love, loss, and everything in-between.

Let’s address the elephant in the room. J.M. Coetzee was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature and is the first person to win The Man Booker Prize twice. How does one divorce the incredible achievements of a legendary novelist and concentrate solely on his latest work.

Thanks to the genius of Coetzee, now an Australian citizen, I had no need to worry. I was thrown head-first into a world I never wanted to leave, even if I’d had the choice. From the first sentence the book washed over me. I knew I couldn’t reemerge into my world until I turned the last page.

The Childhood Of Jesus is the story of a young boy, David, and his friend and carer Simón. They enter the story as new arrivals into a foreign land, a land where the Spanish spoken is not their native tongue. We learn that David’s mother had left him to fend for himself on the ship, and gave him a letter tied around his neck with instructions on what to do when he arrived to new shores. Tragically, David loses the letter and finds himself alone. Simón takes care of David and finds a sense of purpose, not only in watching over him but helping him to find his mother.

They try and establish a life together while searching for David’s mother. Eventually Simón finds work, and with it the means for food and shelter for the two refugees while they attempt to build relationships with those around them, sometimes inhibited by the peccadilloes of their new home.

Then one day Simón sees her. He’s sure of it, even if David isn’t. Surely, it must be her…..

Early noise about The Childhood Of Jesus suggested a far more conventional narrative about the infancy of the founder of Christianity. Now that the novel is upon us, it appears a much longer bow has been drawn to Christ’s early days, and only on reflection do we begin to see the cracks widen and the subtle themes emerge.

As with many of Coetzee’s works, much of the novel uses the characters as vessels to explore deeper philosophical issues. Many passages from The Childhood of Jesus may leave you staring into space, pondering bigger things than just ink on paper. It reads like a fable, every word carefully drawn out by the author and together molded into an exceptional, timeless piece of work.

The Childhood Of Jesus breathes hope into a world where there appears none, laughter in a troubled time, a lesson before you’ve realised you were being taught. It may be a big player come awards season this year, so like its protagonists, catch the boat and journey to a strange new land. You won’t regret it.

Click here to pre-order The Childhood Of Jesus from Booktopia,
Australia’s Local Bookstore

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The Greatest Love Story Ever Told – Vote Today.

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Classic – Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

What is The Greatest Love Story Ever Told?

That’s what we’re asking this month at Booktopia.

With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, we’ve declared February our month of love, with huge discounts on some of the greatest titles ever written.

This week we need your help to decide which love story is top of the tree. All this week we’ll have the poll up, closing it at midday on Sunday.

Then next week we’ll be counting down the top 50 in order, culminating in the top 10, as voted by you, being announced to celebrate Valentine’s Day.

You can vote for as many authors as you like as many times as you like, so have your say on The Greatest Love Story Ever Told today at Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore.

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A LOVELY glimpse into February with Booktopia

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

February is a huge month for all Booktopians, here’s a few hints of what it’s about….

Aristotle described it as “composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies”.

Plato said when touched by it “everyone becomes a poet”.

Charles Dickens described it as “the truest wisdom”.

Yes, you guessed it – February at Booktopia is the month of LOVE.

All this month we’ll have huge discounts on all that is LOVE IN PRINT.  We’ll also have some love related polls going on, culminating in the big question…..

WHAT IS THE GREATEST LOVE STORY EVER TOLD?

We’ll put our heads together and from next week we’ll have heats for you to vote on, followed by the short list.

Then once you vote on that, the Greatest Love Story Ever Told will be announced on Valentine’s Day.

But for now, we want to know what form of love you most like to read about.

Remember, this is just what you like to read about. I enjoyed reading 1984, it doesn’t mean I want it to happen. Well, apart from the cushy public service jobs.

Here are some options… And scroll down to vote on your favourite in the poll below.

True Love - The Princess Bride

True Love – The Princess Bride

TRUE LOVE

An undeniable, unquenchable thirst for each other. Usually with a couple of twists and turns but without any turbulence from the two protagonists.  Stories of true love knowing no bounds has captured us for thousands of years.

Some of us are still searching for that one true love, others may never find it. It’s a complicated world, and the existence of a true love waiting for your embrace can shed light on the darkest of places.

Often full of fun and fantasy, books such as The Princess Bride have proved timeless, the strength of their message so powerful against the backdrop of true love.

Unrequited Love – Love in the Time of Cholera

UNREQUITED LOVE

In its own way a kind of tragic love (for one person anyway), a love not reciprocated or returned in kind has been the subject for millions of works.

Sometimes gut-wrenching, sometimes whimsically funny, so many classics of literature owe their long-lasting appeal to the terrible feeling of having your love being reciprocated float away in the breeze.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ haunting epic Love In The Time Of Cholera still manages to get everybody who reads it a little emotional, such is the powerful story of unrequited love.

Lustful Love - Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings

Lustful Love – Secret Lives of Emma: Beginnings

LUSTFUL LOVE

While the subject of lust over love has always had a strong presence in writing, the sheer number of books that have sashayed into the mainstream and onto our bookshelves in the last few months has been unprecedented.

With International Bestsellers E.L. James or Sylvia Day, or Australia’s own Natasha Walker or Indigo Bloome, the raunchy aspect of love has never been more popular in contemporary fiction.

Destined Love - One Day

Destined Love – One Day

DESTINED LOVE

Whether two parties realise it or not, it’s exciting to watch cupid pull the strings in the background as two kindred spirits are slowly, and often unknowingly, pulled together.

A love that is destined from the start, in many ways the truest of love, is riveting. Where everything in the protagonists’ minds tells them to get away from each other, yet serendipity takes hold.

Books like One Day have sold squillions, the story of a love that slowly emerges, despite the best efforts of the couple involved, will always entertain and enthral.

Tragic Love - Romeo and Juliet

Tragic Love – Romeo and Juliet

TRAGIC LOVE

Often you can see it coming. Two souls collide and, while the picture may be muddled or clear, you sense their fate will be grim to say the least.

Through history the most beautiful love stories have always been tinged with tragedy – the thought of what could have been haunting us forever.

The tragic tale of star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet continues to gather an audience – every generation transfixed by the classic story of a love that could not be.

Forbidden Love - Ernest Hemingway

Forbidden Love – Ernest Hemingway

FORBIDDEN LOVE

As long as there is a love, there will be others who doubt its measure, question its intent and forbid its existence. Tales of forbidden love can scratch away at you like a errant tack in the shoe for days, such is the emotional story of the most powerful thing in the world, love, being taken away.

Whether it’s through class, family, race or religion, the forbidden love has been one of the most popular form of love story for many years and will undoubtedly remain that way for many years to come.

The tale of forbidden love across all borders is just one of the brilliant aspects of one of the greatest works of the last century, Ernest Hemingway’s Farewell To Arms.

Wrong Love - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Wrong Love – Les Liaisons Dangereuses

WRONG (BUT I CAN’T LOOK AWAY) LOVE

The ultimate guilty pleasure. Wrong love can be unrequited, it can be lustful, characters can find their true destiny in spite of it, it can certainly end in tragedy and to be truly wrong it must be a teensy bit forbidden.

Whether it’s the way of the love, or the motives for that unlikely love, wrong love is far more common in literature than we think. Some of the greatest works, such as the deliciously conniving Les Liaisons Dangereuses, explores a love that is the product of many many wrong roads taken. And of course, wrong love can be a bit icky (I’m looking at you Lolita)

And you can vote on them right here….

Voting closes at midday tomorrow, when we’ll be discussing the winner and the books that fall into its branches. We’ll also be asking the same question on Facebook and Twitter tomorrow and over the weekend, so let us know your thoughts or nominate the Greatest Love Story Ever Told to go into the poll next week.

Remember, February is the month of love at Booktopia, Australia’s Local Bookstore.

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Australia’s Favourite Novelist – The Shortlist and Final Vote

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

Nick Earls’ popularity was undeniable in the Heats

The people have spoken. We are very excited to present the 75 Favourite Australian Novelists, as voted on over the past week.

This is not in order, for the order will only be decided once you cast your final vote. Next week we’ll announce the Top 50 day by day, culminating in the Top 10 being announced on Friday the 25th of January.

A huge thanks must go to all the authors, without your gifts to us there simply wouldn’t be a poll to vote on. Don’t forget, if you see any novelists here you love don’t just vote, get in contact with them to let them know they’re here, and with some noise could be a big player next week when we announce the top 50.

Australia’s only winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, Patrick White.

This poll will be up all week and will close at midday on Sunday. As before, you can vote for as many novelists as you like, but you can only vote once. Unlike the last polls, for the suspense, you won’t be able to see the results immediately. That will all be unveiled next week.

We also had feedback that some people didn’t vote for the big names in the heats, knowing that they’d go through without their vote. Well, this is the time the big names need your vote, this is the big one, the final, and every vote counts towards deciding who is Australia’s Favourite Novelist!

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The Last Chance Saloon – Take these Novelists off the cusp and into the shortlist

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Andrew Cattanach

We here at Booktopia are a democratic lot so we thought we’d give you one last chance to mold your shortlist, which you will be voting for all next week. We’ve taken the first 12 from every heat and these are the top 60 (see the list on the pad below) who will go straight through to the final round of voting. Congratulations to all!

Top 60

But this weekend we’re deciding which of the next, wonderful, fantastic, lot of novelists will get to the final 75. Here’s the list of 25 below, the top 15 will get through to the final poll which will run all week right here.

And one final thing that we must stress. You can select as many novelists as you like with your vote. So you can vote for every person, all 25 of them, or just vote for one. The choice is yours.

So without further delay, here is the 25 that must become 15. A terribly difficult task we know, but it must be done.

Happy voting!

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