Category: Prize Winner

April 29, 2010

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie ** (of 4)

I was so disappointed. The book is billed as the great retelling of the Igbo battle for their independent state of Biafra separate from the...

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April 29, 2010

Good Scent from Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler

Short stories on Vietnam and Vietnamese living in Texas. I read about half the stories. They were good, but they were all short stories. It...

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April 23, 2010

East of Eden by John Steinbeck **** (of 4)

A retelling of the stories of Adam, Eve, Cain, and Abel transposed to three generations of two families living mostly in Salinas, California during the...

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April 23, 2010

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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April 23, 2010

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak **** (of 4)

Death narrates the story of Liesel Meminger, abandoned, nine-year-old daughter of a communist, who escapes death’s grasp during WWII in the German city of Molching....

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