HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
The Four Quarters of the World
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This fast-moving novel focuses on Delphine Chambliss, who, in 1866, travels to Abyssinia from the United States. As she searches for her French poet ...Read Review
Grave Review
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Gwen Barrow, the heroine of this novel, is easy to like. Although only in her twenties, Gwen successfully takes on most of the ...Read Review
Blue Man Falling
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Blue Man Falling is set during the Battle of France in 1939-40. It follows the fortunes of two RAF pilots, an Englishman, Kit ...Read Review
The Truth About Sascha Knisch
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Set in the oppressively hot summer of 1928 Berlin, this is a fascinating, though often obscure novel. The eponymous Sascha is an occasional cross-dresser ...Read Review
Wedding Rows
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World War II rationing makes a wedding difficult, but the residents of the small English village of Sitting Marsh pool their resources to ...Read Review
Trumpet Morning
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Taid Petrie is a Revivalist preacher with a tendency to blow his trumpet on the beach at every opportunity and announce that he ...Read Review
The Countess and the Miner
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The peasant girl Irena is sent to Scotland for an arranged marriage to a miner employed by Lord Eveson, the husband of her ...Read Review
Young Zorro: The Iron Brand
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Set in early 19th-century Spanish California, Diego de la Vega (the young Zorro) and his “brother,” Bernardo, are the central characters of this ...Read Review
The Goat Hunter
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The back cover blurb suggests: “This is not just another bloody book about the Vietnam War.” And I agree. Barnz paints a picture ...Read Review
Mediterranean Winter
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This book is sub-titled A Journey through History and that describes it exactly. It is an account of Kaplan’s journeys as a ...Read Review
