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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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THE WIVES OF HENRY OADES
Johanna Moran
I am sure that for most of us, one beloved husband or wife is more than sufficient! In Part One of this novel, as Henry Oades sets sail halfway across the world to New Zealand in the 1890s with his young wife Margaret and their two children, one beloved wife is all he has ever wanted.
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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MANAZURU
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
Kei Yanagimoto's husband walked out without explanation and without a breath of further contact with her or their three year old daughter, leaving her in a strange limbo for twelve years …
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Reviewed by Tui Menzies
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SONG OVER QUIET LAKE
Sarah Felix Burns
Sylvia is a troubled twenty-something student, and Lydie is an eighty-two year old Tlingit woman from the Yukon who knows exactly where she stands in her life. When the two women meet …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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A NOVEL BOOKSTORE
Laurence Cossé
Translated from the French by Alison Anderson
Imagine a bookstore that only sold good novels—not commercial drivel or fluffy installments of the latest teen series, but interesting fiction gathered together by book-loving people who refuse to pander to bestseller lists. Essentially, a reader's version of heaven.
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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2017: A NOVEL
Olga Slavnikova
Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
If Olga Slavnikova's novel, 2017, is any indication, the near-future of post-Soviet Russia—and the world in general—looks pretty grim on a variety of fronts, in large part because people of the techno-boom have lost touch with their own history and culture.
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Reviewed by Jean Raber
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