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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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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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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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THE FROZEN HEART
Almudena Grandes
Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
Since the World Cup Final, all Spaniards will be proud of the victory of their team; Spaniards across the world have celebrated for weeks, basking in their glory. Yet, for many Spaniards they will also hesitate at the sight of their flag, which carried the black eagle until 1981, to many, the symbolism of the Franco state, a reminder of outcome of the Spanish Civil War.
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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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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LIMESTONE
Fiona Farrell
Although the latest novel by award winning New Zealand writer Fiona Farrell seems slight and fairly unassuming in appearance, within its pages Farrell dwells on the "big" issues—why are we here, who made us, what are we and where are we going.
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Reviewed by Dorothy Vinicombe
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