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Bottomland
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Hess is a German name – and on the bleak Iowa plains in the wake of World War I, that means confronting your neighbors’ ...Read Review
The Kindness of Enemies
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Aboulela’s book moves between 2010 Scotland and mid-19th-century Russia and Dagostan. Imam Shamil, the Muslim leader in Dagostan, is determined to end ...Read Review
Secessia
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In 1862, New Orleans was under Union government, but its population was largely sympathetic to the Confederacy. Benjamin Butler, in charge of the city, ...Read Review
The Four Books
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This is an allegorical novel set during Mao’s Great Leap Forward in the 1950s, in a labor and re-education camp for intellectuals. ...Read Review
The Sympathizer
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1968: Saigon falls to the enemy, and thousands of Vietnamese and Americans flock to escape as the military forces of Ho Chi Minh enter ...Read Review
Song for an Approaching Storm
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Sar has large dreams for Cambodia in 1955 and believes Communism is the answer to the violence and chaos, which is made worse by ...Read Review
Jam on the Vine
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In the early 20th century, Ivoe Williams grows up as the unusually intelligent daughter of a Muslim cook and a metalsmith from Texas. ...Read Review
Twilight of the Eastern Gods
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Twilight of the Eastern Gods, by internationally acclaimed Albanian writer Ismail Kadare, is one of this Man Booker International Prize winner’s early ...Read Review
The Bird Skinner
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For years, Jim Kennoway has lived in two worlds: a noted collector and curator of bird collections for New York’s Museum of ...Read Review
Painted Horses
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In the mid-1950s, Catherine Lemay goes to London to study music. Instead, she falls in love with archeology. Battered by German bombs ...Read Review
