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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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BRIXTON BEACH
Roma Tearne
Visual artist and writer Roma Tearne is back with her third novel, Brixton Beach and once again, her evocative language shimmers and quivers on the page as she beautifully transfers her artistic visualizations to the written word.
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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FOR GRACE RECEIVED
Valeria Parrella
Translated from the Italian by Anthony Shugaar
Forget everything you think about Italy. Forget restored 15th century farmhouses, forget hunting for truffles in autumn, and forget friendly neighbours dropping by with bottles of Chianti and olive oil...
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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WOMAN ON THE OTHER SHORE
Mitsuyo Kakuto
Translated from the Japanese by Wayne P. Lammers
Recently translated into English, this acclaimed Japanese novel focuses on two 35-year-old women who meet and form an unlikely friendship. They are the classic polar opposites: the unmarried career woman and the homemaker ...
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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WESTERN
Christine Montalbetti
Translated from the French by Betsy Wing
Montalbetti has written a whole novel about those tiny details which never usually get told; in fact this is a new take on the action-based Western genre...without much action.
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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DEPARTING AT DAWN
Gloria Lisé
Translated from the Spanish by Alice Weldon
Although Departing at Dawn is about a horrible, brutal period, it is not a book about horror and brutality. In the opening sentence, Berta watches as her lover...
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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