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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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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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BOOK OF CLOUDS
Chloe Aridjis
Over its brief span, Book of Clouds explores "the phenomenology of space", the accommodation of the past by the present, and the uneasy relationship between nature and the built environment.
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Reviewed by F. T. Huffkin
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ADVENTURE DIVAS: SEARCHING THE GLOBE FOR WOMEN WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD
Holly Morris
While many travelogues recount the author's own stories and experiences, including some interactions with people met on the road, Morris uses her book specifically as a vehicle for telling the stories of the women she met.
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Reviewed by Carianne Carleo-Evangelist
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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 BOY NEXT DOOR
Irene Sabatini
Friendship between such opposite people is improbable, even discouraged. Yet somehow, these two characters are drawn to each other...
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Reviewed by Cait Fehir
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