Literary
Heretics
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In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis arrived in Cuba with 900 Jewish refugees. They boarded hoping for a new life, only to be turned ...Read Review
The Hunger Saint
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As late as the 1940s, some desperately poor Sicilian families were consigning their sons to indentured servitude in the sulfur mines. The boys ...Read Review
Glass Souls
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In 1930s Italy, the lovely Bianca, Countess of Roccaspina, pays a visit to Commissario Ricciardi. She pleads with him to find the murderer ...Read Review
Love and Famine
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In this coming-of-age story, Dapeng Liu seeks to find his place within the burgeoning class struggle of Mao’s communist and cultural revolutions. ...Read Review
The Body in the Clouds
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In Ashley Hay’s debut novel, The Body in the Clouds (published in the US following The Railwayman’s Wife), she attempts to ...Read Review
Your Father’s Room
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Michel Déon is a French author well-respected in France for his long literary career of over 50 works, but little-known in the English-speaking ...Read Review
Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter
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This is the story of a matriarchal Italian family (or arguably two such families that merge into one), from the late 19th century ...Read Review
Across the China Sea
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“This is what the new world was like: Our own asylum, in the midst of a forest, in the midst of the parish, ...Read Review
Devastation Road
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As the title suggests, Devastation Road is an intense, often surreal account of a man’s wartime journey and its aftereffects. Owen is ...Read Review
Mikhail and Margarita
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When Margarita steps from the pages of Bulgakov’s satirical masterpiece and into the author’s life, the result is pure cold war ...Read Review