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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.	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.	Canadian Barbara Howard brings taxidermy and a baby celebration together with hilarious results in "Western Taxidermy" the title story in her new collection.

NEWS (October 2012): Dear Readers, this issue (17) is still the current issue of Belletrista. Due to a family crisis and ongoing situation, Belletrista has been offline for several months. The good news is that circumstances are beginning to lighten and we hope to have another fabulous issue online sometime this month. Thank you for bearing with us during this time.

Reviews
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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

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

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

WHEN THE NIGHT

Cristina Comencini

Translated from the Italian by Marina Harss

Marina is a young mother who is never quite certain that she really wanted children in the first place. She loves her toddler Marco with an almost obsessive fixation but she also despises his ability …
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Reviewed by Judy Lim

Amalia Gladhart reviews Argentine author Liliana Heker's The End of the Story

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Belletrista - Issue 17
May/June 2012

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