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Fields of Glory
This deeply moving little book comes to the reader softly, like a rainstorm of the lower Loire. Words patter on…
Music of a Life
In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the…
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
For a landlord, Ximen Nao wasn’t such a bad man. He was kind to his tenants, his wife, his concubine,…
Big Breasts & Wide Hips
No matter who holds the rifles in China—invading Japanese, nationalist Kuomintang or the Communists—the problem is the same for “Mother”:…
Letters from an Unknown Woman
It is 1941. Tory Pace’s children have been evacuated from London to the safety of Upper Slaughter in the Cotswolds,…
Dreams of My Russian Summers
Winner of both the Prix Goncourt and Prix Medici in 1995, Makine’s lyrical novel about homeland, memory, and belonging is…
Human Love
In a crude dwelling on the border of Angola and Zaire, two imprisoned men meet during a shocking night of…
The General of the Dead Army
Winner of the first Man Booker International Prize in 2005, Kadare’s debut novel (originally published in 1970) embodies the problem…
The Woman Who Waited
When Vera’s fiancé left in one of the last call-ups of men for the Soviet Army in 1945, she vowed…
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