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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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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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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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BOOK OF CLOUDS
Chloe Aridjis
Over its brief span, Book of Clouds explores "the phenomenology of space", the accommodation of the past by the present, and the uneasy relationship between nature and the built environment.
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Reviewed by F. T. Huffkin
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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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MY MEN
Malika Mokeddem
Translated from the French by Laura Rice and Karim Hamdy
Dr. Malika Mokeddem (1949-), an Algerian kidney specialist and award-winning novelist, has a fascinating and inspiring story to tell, and in My Men she does so obliquely but effectively.
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Reviewed by Darryl Morris
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