Adriana Hunter (trans.)
Her Father’s Daughter
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Little “France”, known throughout the narrative as “the child”, has, in her father’s absence, enjoyed an extremely close, affectionate and all-consuming relationship ...Read Review
Winter Flowers
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Our central character is Jeanne Caillet, whose husband Toussant sustained near-fatal facial injuries in the First World War and has, since then, been ...Read Review
Bakhita: A Novel of the Saint of Sudan
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This profoundly painful, beautifully written, and deeply moving fictional biography of Africa’s first canonized Catholic saint plunges the reader into the bottomless ...Read Review
The Gardens of Consolation
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In her debut novel, Parisa Reza presents a simple, beautiful story of two Iranian peasants, Sardar and his wife, Talla, who leave their ...Read Review
The Red Collar
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After the carnage of World War I is finally over, Jacques Morlac, a decorated war hero, is arrested and held in an abandoned ...Read Review
Under the Tripoli Sky
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Under the Tripoli Sky is translated from French. The translation reads well, but the style can seem rather pretentious in English. Not many ...Read Review
Alexander and Alestria
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Alexander the Great was crowned King of Macedonia in 336 BC and soon after began asserting his authority through his formidable army, squashing resistance ...Read Review
By a Slow River
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“Bastards, saints – can’t say I’ve ever seen one or the other. Souls are never black or white; they’re all gray ...Read Review
