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Clay
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At the beginning of World War I, a French farmer enlists, leaving behind his wife, mother, and teenaged son to manage their small ...Read Review
Blast
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A small group of men moves carefully along Hyères beach on the Côte d’Azur in spring 1945. Each pushes a bayonet ...Read Review
Allegro
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In Allegro, Ariel Dorfman imagines Wolfgang Mozart at three distinct stages: as a child, a young man, and toward the end of his ...Read Review
A History of the Big House
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A History of the Big House, translated from the French, stands halfway between a novel and a memoir. Majdalani writes to recreate the ...Read Review
On the Back of the Tiger
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Not only is the title On the Back of the Tiger engaging, but so is the rest of the narrative itself. Livaneli has ...Read Review
Niki
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Born in hiding then raised under a secret identity, Niki had a strange childhood. Yet her life, which begins in 1937 and spans the ...Read Review
An Honourable Exit
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This history of French commercial and military activity in Indo China (later Vietnam) is presented as a novel, but to cover the period ...Read Review
In the Belly of the Congo
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This novel tells the story of Tshala Moelo, who was born in the Belgian Congo, daughter of King Kena Kwete III, and sent ...Read Review
Ancestry
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Recent years have seen the growing popularity of what is generally known as auto-fiction, in which the writer utilizes elements of his or ...Read Review
The Color Line
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Lafanu Brown is an outsider in 19th-century Rome—she’s a female artist, she’s American, and she’s Black. But she’s ...Read Review
