Sunday 12 October 2014

Noon, Aatish Taseer

I am unsure what I think of Noon - it lost me somewhere in the middle, though may be it was because I didn't concentrate as much as I should have.



It is a novel in five distinct parts which describe different points in Rehan Tabassum's life. The novel is about a man split between two worlds, struggling to rceoncile himself with the violence of his homeland. The first two chapters I enjoyed, but I wasn't so sure of the others. Rehan seems distant, he disengages from the country he is in, and from the reader which makes it difficult to stay interested.

Now half way through The Name Of The Rose by Umberto Echo, which is a sort of literary whodunnit, really liking the first half!