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🇮🇹 Marcello Fois, The Time In Between 🇸🇮 Goran Vojnovic, The Fig Tree

Seeking a little guidance or advice for my next book by her. I recently finished a couple more of her stories and, just now, The Big Green Tent. After a less-than-happy experience with Sonechka, things have turned around quite significantly. So I need to find something else of hers to read...

🇷🇺 Ludmila Ulitskaya, "Bronka" and "The Daughter of Bokhara" ⭐⭐⭐+ After being less impressed than I expected by Sonechka, I decided to read these stories in the same volume. I am pleased to say that I enjoyed them much more…enough so that I intend to go back and re-read Sonechka. I suspect I...

From their website. Please note the answer to question 9. ENTRIES FOR THE AWARD The basics 1) What books are eligible for consideration? Books first published in the United States during 2023. All entries must be made available for purchase by the general public in either hardcover or bound...

This entry offers a small number of Mistral's works, some of which are in both French and English translations. You can also find some other scattered bits here and here.

🇮🇳 Sarat Chandra Chatterji, Stories From Saratchandra 🇲🇾 Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors 🇺🇸 Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin, American Prometheus [biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer]

Haven't read much Bret Easton Ellis, but in my world, the Republican Party is about to nominate an American Pyscho for President.

:rolleyes:

Oh. :oops: (Who knew?) Well. All I have to say in that case is: thank goodness!

That's easy. He ain't Austen (or Woolf either).

As long as it was Jane Austen and not Michael Cunningham, I'd read it! Imagine all those cute, well-behaved little Darcy children and the trouble they could get into. Although if it were 20 years later, I guess they'd likely been teenagers. Hmmm. Maybe even better!

[continued from previous post] Prices of books published during the lifetimes of the holy trinity of Russian Romantic writers — Pushkin, Gogol and Mikhail Lermontov — have risen dramatically in the past 20 years, in line with the rise in wealth of Russian collectors. It’s a small market with...

No good place for this depressing article from today's New York Times Rare Editions of Pushkin Are Vanishing From Libraries Around Europe By Rachel Donadio May 1, 2024 In April 2022, soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, two men arrived at the library of the University of Tartu, Estonia’s...

Wow!! The Tolkien-edited version of Sir Gawain on your shelf. Very impressive.

🇮🇷 Simin Daneshvar, Sutra & Other Stories 🇷🇺 Ludmila Ulitskaya, The Big Green Tent