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SEA OF EDEN
A love letter to humanity and nature, art and culture.
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BOOK REVIEW: SIBLINGS
As a relatively young author, Brigitte Reimann imbued the novel with her convictions and enthusiasm for the work that her generation was doing to rebuild a post-war Germany that was ...
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BOOK REVIEW: SALT CRYSTALS
An uncompromising new voice from San Andres that describes a magical, transcendent place.
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BOOK REVIEW: THE COLOUR LINE
Scego blends Italy’s contentious past and present, unearthing the layers beneath Rome’s glittering surface.
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BOOK REVIEW: A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH, A LAKE TO THE SOUTH, PATHS TO THE WEST, A RIVER TO THE EAST
This novel simply is. Give it the time and attention it deserves and it will stay with you for the rest of your life
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BOOK REVIEW: IS THERE RUSH HOUR IN A THIRD WORLD COUNTRY?
How can we map new itineraries of empathy? Cartography is a way to organise knowledge, and a walk is what grounds those ideas in reality.
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BOOK REVIEW: EVERYTHING CALLS FOR SALVATION
This book is a humane lesson on how to remain kind and sensitive towards our fellow struggling humans
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BOOK REVIEW: WAKE ME UP AT 9 IN THE MORNING
Reading this novel is like falling a mind map, with landscape, characters and crimes carefully plotted.
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BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS
Cixous explores the liminal space between fiction and fact, memory and history, novel and memoir.
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BOOK REVIEW: LOVE
Despite dealing with dark subjects, this is a novel of lightness and hope
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BOOK REVIEW: THE THORN PULLER
Ito’s talent for weaving many voices is brilliantly demonstrated in this newly translated work.
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BOOK REVIEW: LET NO-ONE SLEEP
Sometimes, a larger-than-life bird woman is all a book needs.
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BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF DOUBT
A savage and touching exploration of the realities of life in post-civil-war Korea
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BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS BEYOND COMMAND
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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BOOK REVIEW: THE AGE OF GOODBYES
Li reanimates the yearnings and struggles of Chinese-Malaysian women over the years, and presents a vivid sense of place.
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BOOK REVIEW: GHOST TOWN
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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BOOK REVIEW: THE CENSOR’S NOTEBOOK
To what extent are we free from the “justified interventions” of invisible censors? And if we are not free from them, are we ever going to learn about it one ...
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BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST
Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason.
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BOOK REVIEW: TOMB OF SAND
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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BOOK REVIEW: BOLD VENTURES: THIRTEEN TALES OF ARCHITECTURAL TRAGEDY
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.