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Tag: immigration story
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Affections by Rodrigo Hasbún: from Nazi Germany to Bolivia’s Guerrillas
Rodrigo Hasbún’s Affections traces the real Ertl family from Nazi Germany to Bolivia, tying their lives to Che Guevara and Latin America’s revolutions.
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The Not-So-Rosy Fairy Tale of America [Book Review]
The story about a Dominican young girl who moves to New York only to find herself trapped in a nightmare
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A Fig Tree Recounts History [Book Review]
Star-cross lovers find themselves trapped in a civil war between Turks and Greeks in Cyprus
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Book Review: Home Fire, or being Pakistani in the UK
Kamila Shamsie mesmerizes us with an astonishing ending in this story about two Pakistani families tangled with the post-9/11 world in Europe.
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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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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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Book Review: Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence
A brilliant story about friendship and colonialism and how academia and knowledge can be used as tools for domination
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Book Review: Salt Houses – a Story About Palestinian Diaspora
A beautiful novel that tells the intergenerational saga of a Palestinian family in search of belonging.
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Book Review: 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster
A fascinating historic fiction about survival and deception that will keep you hooked until the end
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Book Review: Nightbloom
The story of two inseparable friends divided by an ocean of grief, rancor and family trauma
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