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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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ANITYA: HALFWAY TO NOWHERE
Mridula Garg
Translated from the Hindi by Seema Segal
If you have ever had the the niggling feeling that there is something swimming under your feet in a lake, only to look underwater to see an enormous fish keeping its eye on you, you'll understand the feeling I kept having while reading Anitya, Halfway to Nowhere. I couldn't shake the sense that. . .
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Reviewed by Tui Menzies
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THAT MAD ACHE
Françoise Sagan
Translated from the French by Douglas Hofstadter
That Mad Ache takes us to glamorous 1960s Paris, a world of money, parties and passions. Lucile, a restless young woman, lives with her older, rich lover Charles. They enjoy a tranquil relationship, he responding to her frequent whims as one might indulge a child. . .
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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THE BORDER OF TRUTH
Victoria Redel
Sara Leader is a lonely, middle aged professor whose knowledge of her father's past is very limited. Between working on a hefty translation of German thinker Walter Benjamin's papers, undergoing a rigorous adoption process, and keeping an eye on her aging father, delving into family history does not seem …
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Reviewed by Julia Mignone
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THE HEART SPECIALIST
Claire Holden Rothman
I raced through this novel at one sitting (it's a missing-your-bus-stop kind of a read) and then went back to re-read more slowly. Claire Holden Rothman, inspired by the life of Dr Maud Abbott (1869-1940), one of Montreal's first female doctors, loosely based this engrossing story on Abbott's experiences.
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Reviewed by Chris Mills
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