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“Faraway the Southern Sky” is an extraordinary literary achievement because it makes real and present the scuffling life and education of the very young man who grew up to become Ho Chi Minh.
Katherine Heiny has a particular talent for opening lines: “Your elderly father has mistaken his four-thousand-dollar hearing aid for a cashew and eaten it.”
All in all, This Bird Has Flown is light but not brainless, and engagingly adorable. It’s a perfect beach read for the New Wave set.
Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
Big Swiss is effervescent and funny, even if overcooked to some extent.
Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is simply dizzying, filled with texture, startling imagery, language in multiple tongues (keep Google within reach!), and it succeeds in most every respect.
Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.
The Ash Family is a full-color illustration of how the modern world leaves people vulnerable to radical ideas.
In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
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