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In Praise of Herta Müller:
Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature
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Holiday shopping? Let us help
you with the readers on your list!
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Carolyn Kelly Muses about the Booker,
the Frankfurt Book Fair, and the German
Book Prize.
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Reviews
Below are a tantalizingly small selection of this month's reviews....
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ADVENTURE DIVAS: SEARCHING THE GLOBE FOR WOMEN WHO ARE CHANGING THE WORLD
Holly Morris
While many travelogues recount the author's own stories and experiences, including some interactions with people met on the road, Morris uses her book specifically as a vehicle for telling the stories of the women she met.
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Reviewed by Carianne Carleo-Evangelist
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WESTERN
Christine Montalbetti
Translated from the French by Betsy Wing
Montalbetti has written a whole novel about those tiny details which never usually get told; in fact this is a new take on the action-based Western genre...without much action.
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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THE LIEUTENANT
Kate Grenville
The Lieutenant is an historical novel set mainly in the early years of the first British colony which was established in 1788 at Sydney Cove, Australia.
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Reviewed by Meg Merrylees
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DREAM OF REASON
Rosa Chacel
Translated from the Spanish by Carol Maier
Dream of Reason is an astounding philosophical novel in the tradition of Sartre and Proust, writers to whom Chacel does not suffer by comparison.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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WOMAN ON THE OTHER SHORE
Mitsuyo Kakuto
Translated from the Japanese by Wayne P. Lammers
Recently translated into English, this acclaimed Japanese novel focuses on two 35-year-old women who meet and form an unlikely friendship. They are the classic polar opposites: the unmarried career woman and the homemaker ...
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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