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US author Sigrid Nunez discusses her new novel with Joyce Nickel
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TRIO: Three remarkable works by Kamila Shamsie by Caitlin Fehir
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Belletrista turns one! A brief retrospective and a look ahead
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Reviews
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SHADOW
Karin Alvtegen
Translated from the Swedish by McKinley Burnett
A child of four is found abandoned in an amusement park with little more than some crumbs, an empty juice bottle, a tape recorder, and a Bambi book by his side. There's also a note …
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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PURGE
Sofi Oksanen
Translated from the Finnish by Lola Rogers
Estonia 1992, right after the fall of the Soviet Union, is a turbulent place, even in a small village far off the centre of events. The old woman Aliide is waiting for the legal rights to her family's lands and forests, once claimed to collective farming, to be returned to her.
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Reviewed by Anders Duus
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HORSE, FLOWER, BIRD
Kate Bernheimer
If you think that Twilight was the best book since The Da Vinci Code, then Horse, Flower, Bird is probably not the book for you. But if you're the sort of person who enjoys listening to curious music on late night FM radio, prefers films that were not made in Hollywood to those that were, and likes to drive different routes home just because …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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MEEKS
Julia Holmes
Rolling Stone editor Julia Holmes's first novel, Meeks, owes a lot to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," the classic 1948 short story which opens with a seemingly innocent town meeting in an unspecified time and place, and gradually increases the reader's sense of foreboding until the very end when somebody heaves a rock, "and then they were upon her." Shivers!
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Reviewed by Jean Raber
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BAD PENNY BLUES
Cathi Unsworth
Unsworth builds her story around the Jack the Stripper murders of the mid-1960s. These crimes remain unsolved and occasioned the biggest manhunt ever done by the Greater London Metropolitan Police.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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