Posts Tagged with ‘Novels’
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Oblomov: The Greatest Russian Novel You’ve Never Heard Of
23 Nov 20121842 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
20 Sep 2012Generals 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
17 May 2012Tamim 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
29 Feb 2012What 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
11 Feb 2012Snow 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
07 Feb 2012If 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
06 Jan 2012A 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
21 Sep 2011Hisham 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
17 Sep 2011Sir 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?
04 Aug 2011I 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,
25 Jul 2011As 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
14 May 2011Adhaf Soueif, of Egptian and British heritage and upbringing has set herself a formidable task in The Map of Love:…
