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In Praise of Herta Müller:
Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Holiday shopping? Let us help
you with the readers on your list!
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Carolyn Kelly Muses about the Booker,
the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the German
Book Prize.
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Reviews
Below are a tantalizingly small selection of this month's reviews....
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SOME DREAM FOR FOOLS
Faiza Guene
Translated from the French by Jenna Johnson
This mostly-optimistic young lady is not your typical youth. She is a streetwise tomboy who has learned to take care of herself...
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF MOSCOW
Ekaterina Sedia
The Secret History of Moscow is an urban fantasy set — as the title might lead you to suspect — in, and under, Moscow.
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Reviewed by Tim Jones
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KICK THE TIN
Doris Kartinyeri
Doris Kartinyeri is a member of the Stolen Generation; in 1945 she was taken from her family by the Australian authorities when she was less than a month old ...
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward's debut novel is set in the world she herself grew up in – small-town Mississippi, right on the Gulf of Mexico. It's not an area of the world I knew much about...
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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THE LIEUTENANT
Kate Grenville
The Lieutenant is an historical novel set mainly in the early years of the first British colony which was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove, Australia.
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Reviewed by Meg Merrylees
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