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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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WHERE THE LINE BLEEDS
Jesmyn Ward
Jesmyn Ward's debut novel is set in the world she herself grew up in – small-town Mississippi, right on the Gulf of Mexico. It's not an area of the world I knew much about...
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Reviewed by Rachel Hayes
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DEPARTING AT DAWN
Gloria Lisé
Translated from the Spanish by Alice Weldon
Although Departing at Dawn is about a horrible, brutal period, it is not a book about horror and brutality. In the opening sentence, Berta watches as her lover...
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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MY SOUL TO TAKE
Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder and Anna Yates
In the starkly beautiful countryside of Iceland's west coast, a woman's body is found, badly beaten and with common sewing pins stuck in the bottom of her feet...
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Reviewed by Kate Morgan
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THE VIRTUOSO
Sonia Orchard
Aficionados will find the music references interesting and familiar, while the uninitiated will find something new and enthralling.
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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THE BOY NEXT DOOR
Irene Sabatini
Friendship between such opposite people is improbable, even discouraged. Yet somehow, these two characters are drawn to each other...
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Reviewed by Cait Fehir
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