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8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
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Embittered by her divorce, housewife Lee Sae-ri seeks distraction by helping the residents at the Seoul elder hospice she works at compose their ...Read Review
8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster
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Dumped by a cheating husband, a hospice worker in modern-day Seoul seeks solace in helping inmates write down their obituaries. After all, ‘(looking) ...Read Review
The Red Bird Sings
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1896, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, USA, and Zona Heaster writes to the child she gave up for adoption. The letter is typed by Zona’...Read Review
A Wild & True Relation
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Sherwood quickly captures the reader’s imagination in this blistering tale of early 18th-century love, betrayal, murder, and revenge, wrapped up in a ...Read Review
Palmares
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Jones began her celebrated literary career as the protégée of Toni Morrison, and in the last fifty years has written a ...Read Review
Daughters of the Resistance
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This is an impressive work of research that follows the narrative of women fighters in the Jewish resistance. The author presents her findings ...Read Review
The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Foundling’s Story
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Before it became acceptable to have a child outside of marriage, the legitimacy of their son or daughter brought shame both to the ...Read Review
She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India 1600-1900
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Were the memsahibs (British women living in India) responsible for the deteriorating relationships between British and Indians in the Subcontinent over the 19th ...Read Review
House of Glass
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Clara Waterfield grew up in the early years of the 20th century with the rare medical condition of having extraordinarily delicate bones, liable ...Read Review
In the Full Light of the Sun
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Berlin 1923, Julius Köhler-Schultz in his late fifties, is a successful art critic and writer. His rather rushed marriage to the philandering and ...Read Review
