Latest on my website: Bakhtiyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate Tree In The World, a superb ,magic realism novel set in post-Saddam Hussein Kurdistan bit.ly/3wnEriA tr. Kareem Abdulrahman from
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Like,many bloggers, I receive emails from readers. A few years ago I received an email from a 12 year old Pakistani girl who planned to read a book from all 197 UN member countries. This now done and you can read about it here: bit.ly/3X6Ixqx. Congratulations Aisha!
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Latest on my website: Orhan Pamuk's Nights of Plague about plague and the struggle for independence of a fictitious Mediterranean island bit.ly/3S731gI tr. Ekin Oklap
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Latest on my website: Ian McEwan's Lessons about lives lived from WWII to now and how the characters were affected by events and other people bit.ly/3Dg8jSC
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Latest on my website: Enrique Vilas-Matas' Montevideo, about doors & where they lead or don't lead, ambiguity and lots of literary tales and ideas bit.ly/3x5Yv9O from
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Latest on my website: László Krasznahorkai's Spadework for a Palace about a NY librarian's obsession with Herman Meville, Lebbeus Woods and the interconnecctedness of humans and nature bit.ly/3AmwYSl tr. John Batki, from
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Latest on my website: Amélie Nothomb's The Book of the Sisters, about two sisters who are very clsoe as are Nothomb and her sister bit.ly/3ci0OiW from
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