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It’s Not You, It’s Me: Commitment Issues

April 21, 2016

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  When I was young, I got around—reading three or four books at the same time, juggling plots, themes, and characters with abandon, but now I’m a responsible reader—no longer one of those ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Feature, Fiction Tagged: contemporary fiction, Eastern Europe, historical fiction, India, mini-reviews, Viking, war

Girl at War: A Novel

June 24, 2015

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Ana is from Croatia but now lives in America and attends college in New York. Despite having been in the U.S for a decade she suddenly finds herself overcome by memories of her life in Croatia in ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, debut, Eastern Europe, historical fiction, war

The First Rule of Swimming

June 19, 2013

The First Rule of Swimming

  It did not help that on Rosmarina there was no such thing as privacy, one house so near to the next that a man could hear his neighbor’s toilet flush. Grudges went back generations and children ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, Eastern Europe, Little Brown and Company

Silent House

October 31, 2012

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It is the summer of 1980 and in a tall, dilapidated house in the seaside town of Cennethisar in Turkey, ninety-year-old Fatma awaits the arrival of her three grandchildren, Faruk, Nilgün, and Metin. ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Eastern Europe, Knopf

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