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Type: fiction
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Author: Haruki Murakami
Description: Murkami is world-class. This is one of his shorter...
2007-02-05
Type: fiction
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Authors: Antonio Lobo Antunes Richard Zenth (trans)
Description: Antunes is among my favourite authors: his works are challenging, dark and inventive, and always...
2007-02-05
Type: fiction
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Author: Brian Moore
Description: Moore has a way of writing novels that race along while luring the reader into contemplation...
2007-01-29
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Type: fiction
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Description: A slight book but both delightful and deep.
2007-01-29
Type: fiction
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Description: Antunes is a master of the modern novel.
2007-01-27
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Description: Not as strong on second reading as on first, but still a striking novel set in early '60s...
2007-01-27
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Authors: Antonio Tabucchi J. C. Patrick (trans)
Description: Tabucchi is among the best of European novelists of the last several decades, and this crime...
2007-01-21
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Description: Tabucchi is a marvel: his reimagining of the potential for the novel is bracing and his characters...
2007-01-21
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Description: In the space of a sentence, Foer can take you...
2007-01-15
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Tags: history america culture music jazz blues
Description: Iconoclastic history of black American pop music and the blues, placing Robert Johnson, finally...
2007-01-15
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2007-01-11
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Description: Truly illuminating. An astonishing piece of writing, with deft humour and slow-building horror....
2007-01-07
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Description: Walter Mosley is one of America's best and most consistent authors. His work raises deep...
2007-01-07
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Tags: history war india china asia mongolia mideast governance
Description: Discovered that everything I "knew" about Genghis and the Mongols was wrong. An enlightening...
2007-01-07
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Description: Rushdie's sweeping novelis a touch over-long, but the sheer force, beauty and playfulness...
2007-01-07
