Literary
The Night Diary
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India/Pakistan, 1947. For her twelfth birthday, Nisha receives a diary. She decides to write in it every night, summarizing her day for her ...Read Review
The Nickel Boys
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The incomparable Colson Whitehead follows his Pulitzer-Prize-winning The Underground Railroad with a tale that is much different and yet, sadly, much the same. ...Read Review
Delayed Rays of a Star: A Novel
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Delayed Rays of a Star features three women—the actresses Marlene Dietrich and Anna May Wong, and the filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl—who were ...Read Review
The World That We Knew
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Magical realism combines with fairy tale in this story of young adults facing death and torture at the hands of the Nazis during ...Read Review
This Tender Land
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Love is what makes a tender land — people and nature, not perfect, but full of what binds us all together. This is the ...Read Review
Little Zinnobers
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Little Zinnobers is not an easy read and presents many challenges, especially to an English-speaking readership. Even the title is problematic, coming from ...Read Review
Caging Skies
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Like many Viennese boys of the late 1930s, Johannes Betzler joins the Hitler Youth, in which he takes great pride, and swallows the ...Read Review
Lux
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This complex novel is written in three main sections. In the first, we read of how the Ark of the Covenant was captured ...Read Review
The Oblique Place
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The author, who died in 2015 aged just 53, has left a profound literary achievement in this novel, which makes the reader regret her early ...Read Review
Guesthouse for Ganesha
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In 1923, Esther Grünspan settles in Köln from Poland. She has been jilted on her wedding day, and the betrayal of love ...Read Review