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🇺🇸 Raymond Chandler - Playback (++) Silly plot, but when the prose is this stylish who cares. -
I think why part of it is depressive is because Couto was trying to describe a society ravaged/torn by the effects of war. I can say...
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"Murambi, The book of bones" by Boubacar Boris Diop "Queen Ginga and how Africans invented the world" by José Eduardo Agualusa
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Sense of Modernism--- Sara Danius Progress of Love--- Alice Munro Love in the New Millenium--- Can Xue Finished reading the Danius...
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Song of Solomon-- Toni Morrison Second Place, Outline Trilogy--- Rachel Cusk Kukotsky Enigma--- Ludymila Ulitskaya Already done with...
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The Poetry of Jaroslav Seifert by Jaroslav Seifert, translated by Edward Osers I thought that Winston Churchill was the most puzzling...
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Although I finished this some time ago, I only just now realized that I neglected to review it. ?? Xiaolu Guo, Village of Stone...
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Murakami H. The City and its Uncertain Walls A very successful return to his roots, a novel which reminds a lot of Hard-Boiled...
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It's a hard text to approach. Even though I have some experience reading Japanese literature it's set in a very ancient time in which...
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Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book
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Off topic, but this is the contradiction at heart of the Nobel Peace Prize. Usually people who make peace are the same people who were...
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You didn't like Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego? I thought it was excellent.
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Apart from the epics ( Ramayana and Mahabharata), this story arguably, had the maximum film adaptation for an Indian text. The word...
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?? Sembene Ousmane, God's Bits of Wood ⭐⭐⭐⭐ The plot—a lengthy strike by railroad workers on the Dakar-Niger railway in the late 1940s...
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DouglasM replied to the thread Nigerian Literature.I know it's a completely irrelevant commentary, but I really think Nigeria has some of the coolest book titles in literature.
