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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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HORSE, FLOWER, BIRD
Kate Bernheimer
If you think that Twilight was the best book since The Da Vinci Code, then Horse, Flower, Bird is probably not the book for you. But if you're the sort of person who enjoys listening to curious music on late night FM radio, prefers films that were not made in Hollywood to those that were, and likes to drive different routes home just because …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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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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SALVATION CITY
Sigrid Nunez
After a worldwide flu pandemic leaves him an orphan, young teen Cole Vining realizes that his life has taken him in an unexpected, and previously unimaginable, direction. In just a few months, he goes from living with urbanite parents to a new life with …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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TIGER HILLS
Sarita Mandanna
Sarita Mandanna gives us a thrilling and enthralling epic story with her debut novel Tiger Hills. A strong, poetic and fluid narrative, Mandanna writes with the kind of musicality and subtle humour that forces you to sit and read in one go.
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Reviewed by Belinda Otas
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2017: A NOVEL
Olga Slavnikova
Translated from the Russian by Marian Schwartz
If Olga Slavnikova's novel, 2017, is any indication, the near-future of post-Soviet Russia—and the world in general—looks pretty grim on a variety of fronts, in large part because people of the techno-boom have lost touch with their own history and culture.
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Reviewed by Jean Raber
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