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"Canis Lupus Familiaris" a wry short story by Ukrainian author Tanya Malyarchuk.
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"A Conspicuous Blossoming:" The Emergence of Prose Writing by Ukrainian Women.
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Canadian Jenn Farrell's brazen collection The Devil You Know is closely
examined by
Joyce Nickel.
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Reviews
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THE TOPLESS TOWER
Silvina Ocampo
Translated from the Spanish by James Womack
Little Leandro, nine, having displeased a gentleman visitor who may be the Devil, finds himself a prisoner in the tower which gives this story its title. He discovers a room set up with all the requisites a painter could need. He begins to paint.
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Reviewed by Tim Jones
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DARK DESIRES AND THE OTHERS
Luisa Valenzuela
Translated by Susan E. Clark
Dark Desires and the Others is both an erotic memoir and a meditation on writing. Taken from Valenzuela's diaries written in New York between 1979 and 1982, it is a series of essays …
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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DOC: A NOVEL
Mary Doria Russell
Doc Holliday is known primarily as Hollywood and dime store novels have portrayed him: as a cold-blooded gunslinger, calculating at cards, and most often with a whiskey in one hand and a revolver in the other.
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Reviewed by Lisa Sanders
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THE SELECTED STORIES OF MERCÈ RODOREDA
Mercè Rodoreda
Translated from the Catalan by Martha Tennent
When General Franco took power in Spain, he repressed all regional languages including Catalan, prompting the twenty-six year old Merce Rodoreda to go into exile, where she did not write for twenty years. Now a legendary Catalan writer…
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Reviewed by Andrew Stancek
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DILEMMAS OF DEOKIE
Carol Sammy
Deokie Ramoutar is different from the other girls in her Trinidadian village. Nineteen years old, she is more sober and thoughtful than her giddy, frivolous friends and not really interested in boys. Instead, Deokie …
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Reviewed by Charlotte Simpson
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THE FOLDED EARTH
Anuradha Roy
This rich evocative novel takes you into the tranquil hills of Ranikhet, a little town set deep in the Himalayan Mountains, with Maya and a host of colorful hill people who become her family when she seeks refuge there in an attempt to get over the loss of her husband.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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THE HOTTEST DISHES OF THE TARTAR CUISINE
Alina Bronsky
Translated from the German by Tim Mohr
Rosalinda Achmetowna is a woman who delights you on the written page but would horrify you should she appear on your doorstep, suitcase in hand. She rules her home and acquaintances with an iron hand, positive of both the fact that they are utterly useless and the corollary that she knows exactly what is needed to whip everyone into shape.
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Reviewed by Tad Deffler
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THE LONG-SHINING WATERS
Danielle Sosin
Lake Superior in North America, which extends into both Canada and the United States, is arguably the largest freshwater lake in the world. For generations it has fascinated, frightened and served those who have visited its waters, among them Indians, explorers, trappers, hunters, missionaries …
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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