Raja Sharma: 876 books

The book is inspired by the colorful history of the author's father and his family. It very successfully evokes Georgia at the beginning of the 20th century. “Cold Sassy Tree” is not a biographical account of the author’s own family.Will Tweedy, the central character and the protagonist...

It was very common in that period to accuse women of practicing witchcraft and infidelity. The novel provides highly effective examples of the punishment that was meted out to the accused women.When the book was first published, it was immediately accepted by an incredibly large number of readers...

Australians use a lot of slang words and expressions as if they were using code words. Some of these words are quite frequently used in movies and spoken by Australian sports commentators. Australian slang is also called 'Strine' which is what some Australians call each other. The way...

“Salvage the Bones” by Jesmyn Ward was first published in 2011. The book won the National Book Award for Fiction in the same year. At the centre of the novel the plight of a working class African American family living in New Orleans is there.The announcements having been made that Hurricane...

The story opens in Zimbabwe. Darling happens to be ten years old at the beginning of the novel. She finds it difficult to navigate a world of degradation and chaos with her friends. In the later part of the novel, she is a teenager in the Midwest United States. In the United States, she joins...

“The Man Who was Almost a Man” by Richard Wright was first published in 1961. It is one of the most famous short stories written by the author.The story was included in the book “Eight Men” with several other stories. Dave, a young African-American farm worker, is the central character...

The structure of the novel is particularly noticeable because the vignettes keep alternating between prose, poetry, and passages that have dialogue. According to some critics and scholars, it is a kind of composite novel. It is also classified as a cycle of short stories. Most of the vignettes...

The novel explores the corruption and religious fundamentalism that gripped the author’s native country. The story is told from the point of view of a child. Through the lives of several characters, the author describes the wave of bloody coups and corrupt military rule that is the part of the Nigerian...

“Flight” is written from the perspective of a first person. It has conversational tone. The inclusion of humor and abrupt confrontation makes the story more interesting and meaningful.Taking its momentum from the historical events, the story moves from present to past and then back to present,...

The main story is about the lives of the Mirabal sister, but along with their stories a fictionalized account of the revolutionary activity is also present in the book. Besides the Mirabal sisters, the story also tells about their families and compatriots in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo...

“A View from the Bridge” by Arthur Miller is a two-act play. It was first staged on 29th of September, 1955, as a one-act verse drama on Broadway.The play failed miserably, and consequently Miller revised the play and rewrote in two acts. It was highly successful and became very popular...

“The History Boys” is set in the 1980s. The place is a boys’ secondary school in North England.The story of the play presents the struggle of the students to get access into a top-tier university. The play poses several questions about the purpose of education and the methods of teachings...

The plight of the Mexican farm workers is the main subject of the novel. It describes how these Mexican farm workers struggled to adapt and survive in the United States.The migrant laborers from Mexico used to work for much lower pay. The employers gave them preference, ignoring the local Americans....

The story of the novel revolves around two youths from city. They are sent to a mountain village to be re-educated while the Cultural Revolution in China was going on. The setting of the novel and most of the details in the novel are inspired by Dai’s own life, but the plot of the novel is...