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Hello good day al4a What five would top my list of books to be brought up from the cellar? If I had the McEwan-Lazarus touch, I’d point to the following (of many): Jezebel, IrÚne Némirovsky, 1936 (an exquisite study of the pains of midlife loss of beauty); Cockfighter, Charles Willeford, 1962 (American grit, allegorised in the most violent of American “sports”); Peter Ibbetson, George Du Maurier, 1891 (a charming British stab at what Proust was doing in Á la recherche du temps perdu); The Book of Disquiet, Fernando Pessoa, 1991 (teasing demonstration of the impossibility of writing books, while writing one); Sardines, Nuruddin Farah, 1981 (powerfully written roman à thÚse, or didactic novel, about the horrors of female genital mutilation, decades before the Western media got aroused by the atrocity).

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