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Andy Barnes tells us why Hanan al-Shaykh is "one of the Middle East's finest contemporary writers"
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Don't Stop the Presses! Women's and Feminist Presses
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Ways of Seeing: Two Novels by Australian author Gail Jones
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Reviews
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TWILIGHT FOREVER RISING
Lena Meydan
Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
Lena Meydan's novel Twilight Forever Rising (originally titled Blood Brothers in Russian, perhaps changed in translation to capitalize on the Twilight phenomenon)—the first installment of a best-selling fantasy series in Russia—depicts a world in which humans unknowingly coexist with vampires who are the real forces behind politics, art, and war.
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Reviewed by F. P. Crawford
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THE SAGA OF GÖSTA BERLING
Selma Lagerlöf
Translated from the Swedish by Paul Norlen
The Saga of Gösta Berling moves freely from lyrical celebrations of nature to harshly realistic descriptions of industry, and on into the realms of folklore and fairytale. Were the book published today, we might …
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Reviewed by Jane A. Jones
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CITY OF THE QUEEN
Shih Shu-Ching
Translated by Sylvia Li-chun Lin and Howard Goldblatt
Hong Kong in the cyclone season: intense humidity; wooded mountains stretching steeply upwards, encircling the harbour, shrouded in a grey soupy mist; star ferries and sampans anchored in the stormy waters. Stepping onto land …
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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SANCTUARY LINE
Jane Urquhart
In her seventh novel, Sanctuary Line, acclaimed Canadian writer Jane Urquhart returns to her familiar themes of transience and memory. As with her earlier works, Urquhart's prose sparkles on the page to create an atmospheric, dreamlike book that at the same time conveys a sense of verisimilitude to actual lives.
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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GARDEN IN THE WIND
Gabrielle Roy
Translated from the French by Alan Brown
Garden in the Wind, a collection of four short stories by Gabrielle Roy, is what I like to call "a quiet book." I use this term to describe books where all the action is under the surface …
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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CONVERSATIONS:
Three Belletrista readers discuss Touch by Palestinian author Adania Shibli.
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If Written By a Woman
Visit our new Belletrista blog!
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2011 – shortlist announcedThe shortlist for this year’s Caine Prize has just been announced and three women are in the running for the prestigious award. This is always an exciting time of year – the Prize is a great way to discover short stories by excellent writers. Lucky for us, the Prize’s website links to a copy of …Read the Rest
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