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A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea
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The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand.
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Several days after finishing the book, something dawned on me in a way I’ve never experienced before… a sort of quiet marvelling.
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Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason.
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Tomb of Sand is a poet’s novel, exquisitely modern. It venerates eccentricity, laughs at its own ingenuity, and blurs borders in language and life.
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Whether you need a romance, a comedy, a satirical political history, horror, or the absurd, Karunatilaka defies genre and invites us to imagine the world beyond.
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While there is more travelling than arriving in this book, Van de Broeck’s compassion for her architects and their ambitions gives the book its soul.
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Within every journey, there are further visible and invisible journeys. This book will remain in your head and your heart for that reason alone.
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Twisting tales of power, violence, love and mystery
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De Gregorio interrogates the classic missing person mystery and finds a deeper mystery hidden within – that of missing identity,
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Katya Adaui sexamines the tangled knot of everyday ties that bind us – for better or worse.
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Linea Nigra is a journey into an elsewhere and a valuable documentation of self-transformation.
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A warped subversion of childhood that excavates the depths of human cruelty.
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A complex, beautiful, poetic and disturbing mediation on human existence.
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if there are two fearsome things lurking in the collective psyche of young Japanese minds today, it is surely having children, and moving to the countryside.