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The absurdity of war and the mysteries of childhood merge in Icelandic author Kristín Ómarsdóttir's Children in Reindeer Woods. Read an excerpt here.
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Turkish author Ayșe Kulin's Farwell: An Occupied Mansion in Istanbul tells the story of one particular
family living in one particular house during the end of the Ottoman Empire. Read the story's beginning here.
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Canadian Barbara Howard brings taxidermy and a baby celebration together with hilarious results
in "Western Taxidermy" the title story in her new collection.
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Reviews
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THE YOUNGEST DOLL: STORIES
Rosario Ferré
Translated from the Spanish by the author
Dr. Rosario Ferré is well known in her native Puerto Rico as a writer, poet, essayist, teacher and scholar, not to mention her service as First Lady of the Commonwealth when her father was Governor and her mother passed away during his tenure.
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Reviewed by Kathleen Ambrogi
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THE LIFEBOAT
Charlotte Rogan
Grace Winter, the narrator of Charlotte Rogan's The Lifeboat, is as unreliable as narrators come. Twenty-two years old, a newlywed and a widow, Grace is standing trial for her life. The Lifeboat is her attempt to recreate …
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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LYRIC NOVELLA
Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Translated from the German by Lucy Renner Jones
Lyric Novella is brief and delicate; it takes place in Weimar Berlin, and relates the story of a developing obsessive love by a young diplomat-to-be for Sibylle, a night club singer.
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Reviewed by Ceri Evans
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SACRIFICE
Karin Alvtegen
Translated from the Swedish by Steven T. Murray
Two women—worlds apart in their circumstances—struggle to come to terms with their respective pasts. Neither is able to move beyond the deep-seated pain they experienced as children, which torments them and robs them of their lives in the present.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie Dawood
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Amalia Gladhart reviews Argentine author Liliana Heker's The End of the Story
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Links We Like
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