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US author Sigrid Nunez discusses her new novel with Joyce Nickel
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TRIO: Three remarkable works by Kamila Shamsie by Caitlin Fehir
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Belletrista turns one! A brief retrospective and a look ahead
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Reviews
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LOVE, ANGER, MADNESS: A HAITIAN TRIPTYCH
Marie Vieux-Chavet
Translated from the French by Rose-Myriam Rejouis and Val Vinokur
I have read several books by Haitian writers. None of them could be described as happy. Marie Vieux-Chauvet's 1967 trio of novellas (individually titled Love, Anger and Madness) is possibly the least happy of all of them. It may also be the best.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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BAD PENNY BLUES
Cathi Unsworth
Unsworth builds her story around the Jack the Stripper murders of the mid-1960s. These crimes remain unsolved and occasioned the biggest manhunt ever done by the Greater London Metropolitan Police.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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LIMESTONE
Fiona Farrell
Although the latest novel by award winning New Zealand writer Fiona Farrell seems slight and fairly unassuming in appearance, within its pages Farrell dwells on the "big" issues—why are we here, who made us, what are we and where are we going.
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Reviewed by Dorothy Vinicombe
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THE BLINDNESS OF THE HEART
Julia Franck
Translated from the German by Anthea Bell
A prologue opens the novel. It is some time during World War II and a woman, Alice, abandons her seven-year old son at a railway station. The story proper begins many years earlier in the town of Bautzen … where
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Reviewed by Amanda Meale
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MANAZURU
Hiromi Kawakami
Translated from the Japanese by Michael Emmerich
Kei Yanagimoto's husband walked out without explanation and without a breath of further contact with her or their three year old daughter, leaving her in a strange limbo for twelve years …
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Reviewed by Tui Menzies
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