Posts Tagged ‘book reviews’
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Quarantine – Jim Crace
Quarantine – Jim Crace – 1997 Reviewed by: Anna van Gelderen Date: 5 May 2002 The place: a dry landscape in the Near-East. The time: the early decades AD. In their tent merchant’s wife Miri notices th...
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Tatli Betüsh – Aziz Nesin
Tatli Betüsh – Aziz Nesin – 1974 Reviewed by: Rasha Maleh Date: 20 May 2005 This novel is almost an epic that tells us about all the faces and phases of a wild woman that has been rejected by her own society...
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Human Landscapes from My Country – Nazim Hikmet
Human Landscapes from My Country – Nazim Hikmet – 1966 Reviewed by: Chris King – The Washington Post Sunday, July 21, 2002; Page BW13 Exile’s Return Reviewed by Chris King The Washington Post Sunday, Jul...
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The Clown and His Daughter/Sinekli Bakkal – Halide Edib Adivar
The Clown and His Daughter/Sinekli Bakkal – Halide Edib Adivar – 1935 Reviewed by: Tayfun Öztürk Date: 1999 Sinekli Bakkal, Abdülhamit devri Istanbul’unun kenar mahallelerinden birisidir. Mahallenin imamını...
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Nana – Émile Zola
Nana – Émile Zola – 1880 Reviewed by: Liliana Rodriguez Maynez Date: 15 April 2003 A really pleasant and entertaining book. I highly recommend it for almost anybody. I only give it three stars because...
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Candide – Voltaire
Candide – Voltaire – 1759 Reviewed by: Guillermo Maynez Date: 5 August 2004 The problem posed by Voltaire in this gem of a little book is common to practically all modern religions (insofar as religio...
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The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Red and the Black – Stendhal – 1830 Reviewed by: Avi Date: 10 April 2003 I read the book in English. It made me want to read it in French. The hero of the book, Julien Sorel is caught up in the u...
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The Skin of My Dreams – Raymond Queneau
The Skin of My Dreams – Raymond Queneau – 1944 Reviewed by: Christopher Moore Date: 5 November 2004 Who is Jacques l’Aumône? This short novel begins and ends in the atelier of the unknown poet Louis-Ph...
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In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust – 1913 Reviewed by: Michael Sympson Date: 2 September 2001 Before we are going to lose ourselves in superlatives, a few pointers might be in place: (1) Proust’s novel ...
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Manon Lescaut – Abbé Prévost
Manon Lescaut – Abbé Prévost – 1731 Reviewed by: Lale Date: 23 September 2001 My good friend Christopher was very surprised to find out that I hadn’t liked Manon Lescaut. He said that it was “like champagne on...
