Manil Suri "The Death of Vishnu"
Virginia Wolf "To The Lighthouse" ( this is not post 1995, but I was stunned by how good it was)
Joanna
John Thornton wrote:
> I need a few recommendations for recent works of fiction that are
> worth reading. Any genre is acceptable, the only stipulation is that
> is has to be fiction and it has to be post 1995. I only read maybe one
> or two fiction books a year, and I generally dislike them, so coming
> up with a list of 5 contemporary works worth reading is almost
> impossible for me. I read non-fiction primarily and seldom find works
> of fiction to be compelling. I generally prefer short stories for my
> fiction reading.
> The last work of fiction I read was "Blindness" by Jose Saramago and I
> was barely able to finish it as it was overly simplistic and I could
> not recommend it to anyone over 15 years old. It seems possible that
> this may have been the result of the English language version having
> been the work of two different translators however.
> Any help from fiction readers would be appreciated.
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> John Thornton
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