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Oblomov: The Greatest Russian Novel You’ve Never Heard Of

11/23/2012

1842 to 1880: what a forty years for readers of literary masterworks!  Beginning with Gogol’s Dead Souls and ending with …

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Generals Die in Bed: A Novel from WW I

9/20/2012

Generals Die in Bed (1930) is a slender and undeservedly little known novel from WW I, by Canadian-American, Charles Yale Harrison …

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War in Afganistan, 1841 — The Widow’s Husband

5/17/2012

Tamim Ansary, Afghan-American since childhood, and author of the very fine Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World through Islamic …

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Memed, My Hawk — A Novel from Turkey

2/29/2012

What a wonderful thing it is to travel to distant lands, and far-away times in the hands of a master …

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Snow: A Novel from Turkey – Orhan Pamuk

2/11/2012

Snow in Turkey?  And for three days, non stop?  Who from the lands outside the greater Middle East would imagine …

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The Red and The Black: Love and Ambition in a time of Revolution

2/7/2012

If it has been years since you attended to Stendhal’s great novel, The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of …

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Passage of Tears – a novel from Djibouti

1/6/2012

A returning ex-pat, an espionage mission, a mysterious Islamist counter-intelligence figure locked away in Djibouti’s Devil’s Islands, a palimpsest of letters …

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Anatomy of a Disappearance: A Novel by Hisham Matar

9/21/2011

Hisham Matar’s second novel, Anatomy of a Disappearance,  easily matches the promise of his first, In The Country of Men, …

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El sueño del celta: Mario Vargas Llosa

9/17/2011

Sir Roger Casement is one of the super-heroes of international human rights, and was so before such a  phrase existed.  …

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All This Belongs to Me: A Novel of Mongolian Sisters; Or Is It?

8/4/2011

I decided to take a break from the run of Arabic fiction I’ve been reading to catch up with a …

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Paths of Glory: A Novel and A Film of War, Books,

7/25/2011

As local author Adam Hochschild makes the rounds with his latest, amazing book, To End All Wars [following King Leopold’s …

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The Map of Love – Ahdaf Soueif, Egypt & England

5/14/2011

Adhaf Soueif, of Egptian and British heritage and upbringing has set herself a formidable task in The Map of Love: …

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