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Finnish author Riikka Pulkkinen makes her English debut with her second novel, True. Read the first chapter here!
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...A "subtly sophisticated gem of a novel" is how Joyce Nickel describes Mary Horlock's The Book of Lies. Read more...
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The recent Bellweather Prize winning novel, Running the Rift by Naomi Benaron, is reviewed by Judy Lim
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Reviews
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STONE IN A LANDSLIDE
Maria Barbal
Translated from the Catalan by Laura McGloughlin and Paul Mitchell
Stone in a Landslide is a modern Catalan classic. It was first published in 1985, but is only now available in English translation. Discovering a great novella about how the Spanish Civil War tore apart the Catalan nation is an opportunity that shouldn't be ignored.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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THE BOOK OF CHANGE
Eileen Chang
Eileen Chang's reputation as an author has come full circle. Her writings were beloved in occupied Shanghai during World War II, but she lost her popularity as the Cultural Revolution marginalized writers, like Chang, who created stories without a political subtext. Today she is generally considered to be one of the great Chinese writers of the twentieth century.
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Reviewed by Barbara Steeg
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THREE WEEKS IN DECEMBER
Audrey Schulman
Advocacy fiction can be a tricky business: it's easy for passion to slip into sermon or harangue, obscuring the identity of the work as a story. When that happens, I would argue that it might as well be an essay rather than fiction. Audrey Schulman's latest novel, Three Weeks in December, tackles the genre of advocacy fiction twice, alternating chapters of two stories on the theme of Euro-American involvement with Africa. Happily for the reader, she stays on the safe side of the line between fiction and essay.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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THE WORLD WE FOUND
Thrity Umrigar
In her fifth novel Thrity Umrigar explores the haunting themes of love and loss, idealism and disappointment, commitment and betrayal. The World We Found belongs alongside…
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Reviewed by Dorothy Dudek Vinicombe
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Sudha Balagopal invites readers into the world of South Indian Carnatic music in the seven short stories of her
debut collection. Amanda Meale reviews it for us.
Included with this review is a performance by veena virtuoso Nirmala Rajasekar
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