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In Praise of Anita Rau Badami by Caitlin Fehir
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"Red Leaves", a short story by Can Xue
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Tess Gallagher: Lying Next to the Knife by Caroline McElwee
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Reviews
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WILD MULBERRIES
Iman Humaydan Younes
Translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman
Set in the 1930s in rural Lebanon, Wild Mulberries is a slim book about a world in transition. A crumbling silkworm farm run by a man who refuses to see a new world knocking at his door serves as the backdrop for …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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VERTICAL MOTION
Can Xue
Translated from the Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping
Can Xue's stories collected here are expeditions into the literary fantastic: unaccountable states in which the impossible is commonplace, and the reactions of commonplace people are nothing like normal.
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Reviewed by Michael Matthew
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THE BOOK OF DOUBT
Tessa de Loo
The Book of Doubt tells the story of a young Dutch man's search for his father, a Moroccan musician his mother had a brief relationship with. Accompanied by his best friend Hassan, the man, Saeed, takes a road trip around Morocco …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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THE DEATH OF LOMOND FRIEL
Sue Peebles
At some point in our teenage years or in early adulthood, most of us will come face to face with the loss of someone close to us, a parent, grandparent, other relative or friend. Loss affects everyone differently; some carry on as if nothing has happened, whilst others …
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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IN THEIR FATHER'S COUNTRY
Anne-Marie Drosso
'What's a life?' Claire Sahli wondered. The answer seemed obvious to her: 'if you're young, it's the future; not so young, it's the present; old, it's the past; and very old, it's the deaths of all those who mattered in your life.' As she now saw it, that's what a life seemed to be. A succession of deaths, one after the other.
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Reviewed by Jana Herlander
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