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Meet Italy's Award-winning author Lia Levi
in this interview with Paola Sergi.
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Fifteen years old and All Grown Up?
Rachael Beale takes us on an Orange
Prize retrospective journey.
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In Praise of New Zealand's Patricia Grace
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Reviews
Below is a small tantalizing selection of this month's reviews....
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HEAVEN OF DRUMS
Ana Gloria Moya
Translated from the Spanish by W. Nick Hill
Heaven of Drums is an ambitious little book which uses an interracial love triangle to build a narrative history of the independence of the author's native Argentina.
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Reviewed by Andy Barnes
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COLD EARTH
Sarah Moss
'University academics' is not a phrase which generally conjures up thoughts of excitement, thrills and life-threatening danger....
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Reviewed by F. T. Huffkin
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MY BIRD
Fariba Vafi
Translated from the Persian by Mahnaz Kousha and Nasrin Jewell
Books written by Middle Eastern women are commonly selected for translation into English because they contain elements both familiar and exotic: through their struggles with oppressive religio-political systems or dangerous intercommunal conflicts, the women in these books reveal themselves to be "just like us" in their hopes and aspirations.
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Reviewed by F. P. Crawford
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RIEN NE VA PLUS
Margarita Karapanou
Translated from the Greek by Karen Emmerich
Is there any word more ambiguous than "love", asks the much-loved Greek author, Margarita Karapanou. Three characters declare their undying love for the object of their affection and proceed to play out their passion in the most bizarre and, sometimes, disturbing ways.
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Reviewed by Akeela Gaibie-Dawood
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DARK MATTER
Juli Zeh
Translated from the German by Christine Lo
There's a commonly-held perception that suspense novels are light reading, unchallenging brain candy for those in search of a bit of pulse-quickening excitement in the airport. Juli Zeh, a bestseller and multi-award winner in her native Germany, has decided to turn this notion on its head by writing a suspense novel about quantum physics.
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Reviewed by F. T. Huffkin
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Telling Our Stories
Belinda Otas introduces us to East African debut authors Maaza Mengiste and Nadifa Mohamed.
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Trio: Assia Djebar
Tad Deffler reviews three books by Algerian author Assia Djebar
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