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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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INFINITY IN THE PALM OF HER HAND
Gioconda Belli
Translated from the Spanish by Sayers Peden
I love retellings of popular stories (fairy tales, the King Arthur legend, fables), love venturing into familiar territory in an unfamiliar way, seeing how an author can give a voice to characters previously on the sidelines. In Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand, Gioconda Belli tackles the story of Adam and Eve…
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Reviewing by Caitlin Fehir
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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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PALIMPSEST
Catherynne M. Valente
Think of a novel as an amalgam of its story, its ideas, its people, and its language. Does a particular story demand a particular sort of language? Palimpsest is a fantastical city, sprawling over a vast territory, functioning on magic, eclectic in architecture, infested with clockwork insects, populated by …
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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THE WOMEN MY FATHER KNEW
Savyon Liebrecht
Trasnslated from the Hebrew by Sondra Silverston
At the age of seven, Meir left his father in Tel Aviv to join his mother in the United States. Straightaway he was told that his father had died. At that moment, all memories of his first seven years died, too.
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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