Interpreter of Maladies
2000 · 208 pages
Nine stories of Indians and Indian Americans living between two countries, told with a calm that makes the losses land late. A married couple confess things to each other during nightly power cuts.
★ 6.3
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
2000 · 704 pages
Smuggled out of occupied Prague in a coffin with the Golem, Joe Kavalier lands in Brooklyn and invents a superhero with his cousin. Chabon makes comics their one weapon against Hitler.
★ 5.5
The Feast of the Goat
2000 · 416 pages
Assassins wait in a car for Trujillo's Chevrolet on his last night. Vargas Llosa moves between them, the dictator's failing body, and the woman who returns thirty-five years later to accuse her father.
★ 5.3
White Teeth
2000 · 464 pages
Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal met in a tank in 1945 and are still arguing in North London, while their children reject every inheritance on offer. Smith made multicultural Britain a comic epic.
★ 5.2
The Blind Assassin
2000 · 521 pages
Iris Chase, old and unforgiving, tells how her sister Laura drove off a bridge in 1945. Inside her account sits a scandalous novel, and inside that a pulp tale of blind child assassins.
★ 5.2
Kitchen Confidential
2000 · 312 pages
Bourdain cooked for two decades, then told everything: the drugs, the immigrant crews who hold restaurants up, why you never order fish on Monday. He made the line cook a figure Americans envied.
★ 4.7
Me Talk Pretty One Day
2000 · 272 pages
Speech therapy for a lisp, a methamphetamine phase of conceptual art, then a Paris classroom where a French teacher reduces grown adults to stammering. Sedaris finds humiliation funny and never spares himself.
★ 4.6