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TRIO! Ceri Evans discusses three books by Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif.
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"Seven Little Rooms" - original fiction by notable Hindi author Mridula Garg.
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Who Has the Power? Reading Arab Women in English by M. Lynx Qualey
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Reviews
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THE CONFESSIONS OF NOA WEBER
Gail Hareven
Translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu
If you expect fiction to have plot, then this award-winning novel by Israeli author Gail Hareven is probably not the book for you! However, if you wish to experience living in someone else's head, reading The Confessions of Noa Weber will offer you very rare insights into …
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Reviewed by Dorothy Dudek Vinicombe
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WHO FEARS DEATH
Nnedi Okorafor
Nnedi Okarafor's fanciful and furious novel Who Fears Death is a truly strange hybrid, combining "ripped from the headlines" details of genocide, rape, and female genital mutilation with lyrical descriptions of African deserts and fantastical elements like dueling sorcerers and shape-shifting. It shouldn't work—but it does, and I was drawn in…
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Reviewed by F. P. Crawford
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ALL THE LIVING
C. E. Morgan
This debut novel introduces a young author with an extraordinary command of the pen. C. E. Morgan's finely crafted prose draws one into present-day Kentucky with its sweltering, breezeless days, where twenty-year-old Aloma has come to live with her lover, Orren.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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THE EIGHTH DAY
Mitsuyo Kakuta
Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
On February 3, 1985, Kiwako makes her way into the home of her married ex-lover, and leaves with his newborn child tucked underneath her coat. With Kaoru in her arms, she flees Tokyo to start a journey with the child she should have had, had she not been persuaded …
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Reviewed by C. Lariviere
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