Category: FICTION

August 6, 2012

The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht *** (of 4)

This is a collection of Balkan folk tales loosely held together by the parallel lives of a young female doctor and her grandfather also a...

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July 19, 2012

Mission to Paris by Alan Furst *** (of 4)

Fredric Stahl, a handsome American movie star of Austrian descent is sent by his California studio to Paris to make a movie. The year is...

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July 8, 2012

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick DeWitt *** (of 4)

A tall tale of the Old West. A pair of brothers, Charlie and Eli Sisters, with the self-importance of Keillor’s Dusty and Lefty and the...

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June 22, 2012

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami **** (of 4)

Tokyo, 1984 (the title refers to the year and the Orwell book of similar title, not the IQ measurement of intelligence). Boy meets girl in...

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June 17, 2012

Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene *** (of 4)

Nobody quite does a comedy of manners like the British and Graham Greene’s paean to the superiority of living life on the edge is a...

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April 24, 2012

The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka **** (of 4)

An elegy for the Japanese women who arrived in California in the early part of the twentieth century as mail-order brides to join lonely Japanese laborers. ...

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April 17, 2012

Habibi by Craig Thompson **** (of 4)

Girl meets boy. Girl loses boy. Girl and boy are reunited, but with issues. That part seems straightforward enough, but this telling of the simultaneously...

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April 1, 2012