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"Canis Lupus Familiaris" a wry short story by Ukrainian author Tanya Malyarchuk.
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"A Conspicuous Blossoming:" The Emergence of Prose Writing by Ukrainian Women.
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Canadian Jenn Farrell's brazen collection The Devil You Know is closely
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Joyce Nickel.
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Reviews
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LIKE BEES TO HONEY
Caroline Smailes
In her latest novel Like Bees to Honey Smailes weaves a beautiful story of redemption and renews our way of seeing the world as she does so. The storyline follows Nina, a burdened and troubled woman, as she travels from her adopted home in Liverpool to her native hometown in Malta.
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Reviewed by Flavia Baralle
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DARK DESIRES AND THE OTHERS
Luisa Valenzuela
Translated by Susan E. Clark
Dark Desires and the Others is both an erotic memoir and a meditation on writing. Taken from Valenzuela's diaries written in New York between 1979 and 1982, it is a series of essays …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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DILEMMAS OF DEOKIE
Carol Sammy
Deokie Ramoutar is different from the other girls in her Trinidadian village. Nineteen years old, she is more sober and thoughtful than her giddy, frivolous friends and not really interested in boys. Instead, Deokie …
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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WITNESS THE NIGHT
Kishwar Desai
It is September 2007, and police in the Punjab region of India ask social worker Simran Singh for her help in talking to an uncommunicative fourteen-year-old girl. The girl, Durga, was found loosely tied up and…
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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THE SELECTED STORIES OF MERCÈ RODOREDA
Mercè Rodoreda
Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent
When General Franco took power in Spain, he repressed all regional languages including Catalan, prompting the twenty-six year old Merce Rodoreda to go into exile, where she did not write for twenty years. Now a legendary Catalan writer…
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Reviewed by Andrew Stancek
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THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE
Alina Bronsky
Translated from the German by Tim Mohr
Rosalinda Achmetowna is a woman who delights you on the written page but would horrify you should she appear on your doorstep, suitcase in hand. She rules her home and acquaintances with an iron hand, positive of both the fact that they are utterly useless and the corollary that she knows exactly what is needed to whip everyone into shape.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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FIVE BELLS
Gail Jones
Circular Quay is the bus and train terminus for Sydney Harbour. The Quay is also where the ferries dock and is a busy place with its people, shops and buskers. From the Quay one can walk the concourse…
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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BIG GIRL SMALL
Rachel DeWoskin
Judy Lohden is smart and talented; she has a scathing sense of humour and is just a little bit conceited. She is 16 years old, starting a new year in a new school, trying to find her place in the often vicious, often changing world that is high school.
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Reviewed by Judy Lim
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