Dua Lipa is a trend-setting singer, but not only in music, where her songs are in the top world rankings, nor because of her daring dance steps: the singer premiered Service95 a few months ago, a newsletter with their best recommendations: lists, places to know, reflections, and different articles.
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In this last edition, he added five books that fascinated him among his suggestions. It is not the first time that the artist confesses that she is a fan of booksIn fact, she can usually be seen reading on social networks.
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For this month, their recommendations were “Clara and the sun“, of the Nobel Prize for Literature Kazuo Ishiguro, “a perfect balance“, from the best seller by Indian author Rohinton Mistry, “swim in the dark“, De Tomasz Jedrowski,”On Earth we are fleetingly great by Ocean Vuong and “girl, woman, others“, by Bernardine Evaristo.
See what each one is about
“Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is the author’s first novel after winning his Nobel Prize in 2017. “Klara and the Sun” is a science fiction story (although the writer denies those ””labels””) that explores what makes humans.
It tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend who is bought by a family to keep a sick girl company. Ideal for fans of Black Mirror.
“A Perfect Balance” by Rohinton Mistry
It is the second novel by Indian author Rohinton Mistry. Set in “an unidentified city” in India, initially in 1975 and later in 1984, it exposes the changes in Indian society during the outbreak of the state of emergency, called by the Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.
The book is about four characters from diverse backgrounds: Dina Dalal, Ishvar Darji, his nephew Omprakash Darji and the young student Maneck Kohlah, who meet and create a strong bond.
Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jedrowski
In the 1980s, Ludwik, a Polish university student, nonconformist and voracious reader, is forced to attend an agricultural summer camp.
There he meets Janusz, an attractive and carefree boy who begins to feel fascinated, although fear does not allow him to lower his guard.
Cut off from society and its restrictions, and joined by an illegal copy of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, they fall deeply in love, but suffer the consequences of living in a Catholic and communist country where the passion they share is inconceivable.
“On Earth we are fleetingly great, by Ocean Vuong
It is the first novel by Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong.
It is an epistolary novel, it is written in the form of a letter from a Vietnamese-American son to his illiterate mother
“Girl, Woman, Others”, by Bernardine Evaristo
A set of independent stories, but intertwined with each other, starring twelve women from different generations, social classes, ideologies, sexualities, identities.
They are all black or African descent who live, or have lived part of their life, in the UK.
Throughout the novel, the stories of these women, all different, all unique, are interwoven to say loud and clear: the point is to be together.
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