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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April 29, 2010

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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April 29, 2010

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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April 29, 2010

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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April 29, 2010

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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April 29, 2010

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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April 29, 2010

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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April 23, 2010