Sentence examples for novel sought from inspiring English sources
The novel sought to illuminate the officially-obscured-history of the deaths of the Mirabal sisters, not to determine what happened to them, but to determine how the Mirabal sisters happened to the national politics of the Dominican Republic.
Funder's novel seeks to control the uncontrollable, as all novels do.
She also wrote a novel, Seeking Air (1978), which was praised by Peter Ackroyd.
But his new novel seeks to propel those characters forward into new and treacherous times.
Simón spends much of this novel seeking, and not finding, glimmers of humor and irony in this new world.
The narrator of Krusoe's unsettling novel seeks a way for the living to get through to the dead.
Against that official narrative, Johnson's novel seeks to tell the singular story of Jun Do, a boy raised in an orphanage called Long Tomorrows.
All lovers of this slim novel seek to unlock the secret door leading from their own room to the Room on the Rue Montmartre.
This accomplished novel seeks out the positive and redemptive: we see a succession of characters cope with the challenges life throws at them – and move on.
The Island by Victoria Hislop (Headline Review) is another first novel seeking the solution to a mystery, but here the puzzle is a mother's reticence over her Cretan upbringing.
Where Dirt Music ended optimistically with a sharing of oxygen, a 'kiss of life', the characters in this novel seek to assert control over their physical selves by withholding breath.
