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The Tunnel – Ernesto Sábato
The Tunnel – Ernesto Sábato – 1948 Posted by Steven on 3/12/2012, 19:56:40 I just finished it today too. It bugs me that it kept reminding me of something else I had read, but I couldn’t remember what. Of cour...
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Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Achebe never depicts tribal, pre-European African life as bucolic or peaceful. I think it is a brutally honest portrait of Igbo machismo, violence, and cruelty. Which, of course, does not also forgive Europeans for their own br...
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The Sisters Brothers- Patrick deWitt
The Sisters Brothers – Patrick deWitt – 2011 Posted by guillermo maynez User on 18/9/2013, 13:52:44 Thanks Lale for this wonderful recommendation that I surely would have otherwise missed. I enjoyed this tale a lot....
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The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco
The Prague Cemetery – Umberto Eco – 2010 Posted by Sterling on 12/10/2012, 22:51:01, Actually, I don’t know if I’m going to reveal any spoilers or not. At the moment I have some random thoughts that do n...
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The Monk (Lewis) / Seven Gothic Tales (Blixen)- Matthew Gregory Lewis
The Monk – Matthew Gregory Lewis – 1796 Seven Gothic Tales – Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen) – 1934 Posted by guillermo maynez on 30/10/2013, 17:31:49 I’ve turned Gothic after reading these two books. ...
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The Tapestries – Kien Nguyen
The Tapestries – Kien Nguyen – 2003 Posted by guillermo maynez on 22/7/2014, 13:21:20 Following several of your recommendations on books about Vietnam / Cambodia / Laos, I have recently read “The Tapestries...
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A Suitable Boy- Vikram Seth
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth – 1993 Posted by Steven on 18/4/2009, 21:37:30 Here is an unexpected link between one of our novels and today’s news: A Suitable Boy is set in India shortly after its independence ...
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Song of Solomon- Toni Morrison
Magical realism about African American identity, both as individuals and as communities. Bizarre, violent, mysterious and delightful in turns, this novel is considered by some as one of the best novels of the 20th century.
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The Slynx- Tatyana Tolstaya
The Slynx – Tatyana Tolstaya – 2007 Posted by Steven on 22/1/2013, 9:46:28 It’s an unusual book in that it starts out as a satire like a post-apocalyptic Animal Farm. But midway through the novel, its plot beg...
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Skios – Michael Frayn
Skios – Michael Frayn – 2012 Posted by Lale on 21/4/2013, 10:43:17 I am half-way through Skios and it is fun. It would make a fun movie, of course. And similar ones have been...
