April 30, 2010
The Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth * (of 4)
Winner of the Booker Prize totally boring Midrash of the Iliad. I couldn’t finish it.
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Category: Europe
April 29, 2010
Snow by Orhan Pamuk ** (of 4)
Ostensibly there is a plot based on the return of a Turkish exile to his small eastern hometown where the national debate about the politicization...
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Small Island by Andrea Levy **** (of 4)
There’s a reason this book won the Whitbread Award for best book of the year, one of Britain’s most prestigious literary awards. It captures the...
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Saturday by Ian McEwan ** (of 4)
Both of my parents, and the critics, raved about this book, so take my review cautiously. The story revolves around the meticulously described single day...
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Mila 18 by Leon Uris **** (of 4)
One of my absolute favorite books about the Warsaw ghetto uprising. A real page turner with wonderful characterizations.
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Maps for Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam **** of 4
Islamic Pakistani immigrants struggle with isolation from their homeland and one another. Aslam’s writing is so replete with metaphor and cultural insight that every page...
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Inheritance by Natalie Danford ** (of 4)
A too carefully crafted book of remembering and forgetting. A 30-something daughter of an Italian immigrant father with Alzheimer’s returns to Urbina, Italy to discover...
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The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton *** (of 4)
In one of Crichton’s earliest books, he retells the adventure of professional, upper crust burglar who spends a year and a half masterminding the heist...
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Everyman Dies Alone by Hans Fallada **** (of 4)
Published originally in 1947 in postwar Germany and only translated into English in 2009 this is a fictional recounting of a true story: a Berlin...
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Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
A slow, intelligent, patient novel I listened to on tape about how three generations of Germans relate to Nazis. The central theme is the sinking...
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