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For the determined escapist on the beach this summer, White Teeth, Zadie Smith's tale of three families from World War II to the 1990s, is a book to retreat into. Traversing Jamaica, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent en route to north London, it colourfully explores race, class and identity. If you're facing a long journey, have a bash at A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth‘s sprawling love story, or James Robertson’s Joseph Knight, a compelling historical epic. lncurable romantics should check in to Hotel du Lac, Anita Brookner‘s powerful study of romance-writer Edith Hope‘s search for love on Lake Geneva. Alternatively, check into John Irving’s The Hotel New Hampshire for a tragi-comic sojourn into bizarre family life, or drop in on Hotel World, Ali Smith‘s gorgeous insight into five interconnected
lives.
Summer's a grand time for a scare, and if Alex Garland's uneasy travelogue The Beach doesn't chill sufficiently, grab the sunblock and head for Neville Shute’s On the Beach which examines the effects
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of nuclear conflict on survivors in a small Australian community. Or there’s always the creepy granddaddy of ‘em all, Lord of the Flies, William Golding’s classic exploration of the primitive instincts that overtake a group of stranded
young boys.
With certain works, the heat and dust of the setting can truly be felt on the skin. None are more
accomplished at such vivid evocation than Isabel Allende and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Allende's Eva
Luna follows the eponymous storyteller, whose dramatic life mirrors the political upheaval of her
country while Marquez’ 100 Years of Solitude charts the misfortunes of the Buendia family, the text taking in South American politics and mythology in a masterpiece of magic realism. Go sun yourself.
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