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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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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
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BOUNDARIES
Elizabeth Nunez
The title of this insightful novel serves as a perfect descriptor for its major theme: the boundaries that separate cultures, literature, colleagues, and those who love and sustain each of us.
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Reviewed by Darryl Morris
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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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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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Amalia Gladhart reviews Argentine author Liliana Heker's The End of the Story
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Links We Like
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