HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
Broken Jewel
A Japanese prison camp in the Philippines is the setting for a tense novel of brutality, endurance, hope, and, most…
Stardust
In 1945 Hollywood, the end of World War II, while cause for rejoicing, also ushered in the beginning of the…
The Calligrapher’s Daughter
Eugenia Kim’s debut novel is a beautiful, poignant story that portrays the life of a young woman during one of…
Curriculum Vitae
Part fiction, part memoir, Hoffmann’s novel could mean many things to readers, or it could mean nothing. Written as a…
Velva Jean Learns to Drive
Editors' choice
In 1933, when she is ten years old, Velva Jean Hart is saved for the first time. And she is…
Transgression: A Novel of Love and War
Editors' choice
In 1941, in German-occupied France, 16-year-old Adele Georges meets Manfred Halder. Halder, a 19-year-old German working as a clerk, offers…
Sure and Certain Death: A Francis Hancock Mystery
Francis Hancock is a middle-aged, half-English, half-Indian undertaker whose London “manor” is being systematically dismantled by Hitler’s Luftwaffe in World…
House of Angels
This is the first book by Freda Lightfoot I have read and, despite the fact that I am not a…
Roses
Howbutker, a small town in east Texas, is home to three dynasties: the DuMonts, the Warwicks, and the Tolivers. The…
Stone’s Fall
The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by…
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