Ladislara
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Tag: book review
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Doramar: Stories of Those Who Were Forgotten
Booker nominee Itamar Vieira Jr. explores the universe of domestic workers, enslaved men, executioners and the insane
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West With the Night: The First Woman to Fly Solo Across the Atlantic
The memoir of the British-Kenyan pilot Beryl Markham, a pioneer of African aviation
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Pachinko Review: the Challenging Life of Koreans in Japan
The saga of 4 generations of a Korean family over war and displacement
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Stone Blind Review: The Other Story of Medusa
A feminist retelling of one of the most famous creatures in Greek Mythology
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She Would be King Review: The Fantastic Tale of Liberia’s Creation
The touching story about the foundation of the only Black state in Africa never subjected to colonial rule.
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Knife Review – Meditations After an Attempted Murder
Writer Salman Rushdie’s account of the attempted murder that almost fulfilled the fatwa imposed on him by Islamic fundamentalists.
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Book Review: The Collected Regrets of Clover
A novel about a death doula coming to terms with life
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Book Review: A Grandmother Begins the Story
A story about Indigenous heritage, told by multiple voices – and some issues with the Indigenous literature I have access to
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Book Review: The Accusation
The first fiction book written inside North Korea to ever be published outside the country.
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Book Review: Island Beneath the Sea
Magical realism meets historical fiction in this tale about the Haitian revolution
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