The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro is a fantasy novel set in a mythical, post-Arthurian England where a strange mist causes amnesia, forcing an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, to journey across a war-torn land to find their son. As they travel with a Saxon warrior and his orphan charge, they begin to remember their shared, troubled past. The book explores themes of memory, love, and the cost of peace, examining whether forgetting the past is a necessary evil to prevent future conflict. It is described as a fable with a powerful and emotional core, blending adventure with philosophical questions about individual and collective memory.Â
The Circle of Reason, Amitav Ghosh’s debut novel, is a magical and picaresque saga following a young master weaver named Alu across continents. Wrongly accused of terrorism in his Bengali village, Alu flees India, traveling through the Persian Gulf and on to North Africa, all while being pursued by a persistent police inspector. A wild adventure filled with eccentric characters, the novel weaves together threads of myth, modernity, rationality, and displacement in a vivid, multilayered narrative.Â
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy is a self-help book that explains how small, consistent daily actions, when repeated over time, lead to significant long-term success. It argues that there are no secret shortcuts to success, but rather a simple process of making small, positive choices that build momentum, similar to how compound interest works in finance. The book provides strategies to help readers identify and break bad habits, build good ones, and harness the power of consistency to achieve their goals in any area of life.Â
The E-Myth teaches that to build a thriving business, owners must think beyond the technical work they love and develop the skills and mindset of a manager and an entrepreneur.
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