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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 LÖWENSKÖLD RING
Selma Lagerlöf
Translated from the Swedish by Linda Schenck
Translator Linda Schenck's notes to her 1991 English version of Selma Lagerlöf's The Löwensköld Ring are almost as interesting as the novella itself, and anyone interested in literary criticism might easily get sidetracked musing about theories of translation instead of focusing on the brilliance of this …
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Reviewed by Jean Raber
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THE UNINVITED GUESTS
Sadie Jones
I am a big fan of Sadie Jones. Her first two novels, The Outcast and Small Wars, are heart-wrenching looks at troubled characters trying to maintain tumultuous relationships.… On the surface, The Uninvited Guests, Jones' third novel, feels nothing like her previous two.
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Reviewed by Caitlin Fehir
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HOMESICK
Roshi Fernando
In Homesick, author Roshi Fernando interweaves seventeen short stories to form what the publisher calls "a composite novel." In these stories, Fernando introduces us to an extended cast of characters living in the Sri Lankan immigrant community of South London.
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Reviewed by Joyce Nickel
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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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Amalia Gladhart reviews Argentine author Liliana Heker's The End of the Story
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