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[[Category:Literary Fiction|*]]
[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__
 
{{Frontpage
|isbn=0989715337
|title=Papa on the Moon
|author=Marco North
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''Some frogs had gotten into the well.''
 
''Walter stood waist-deep in the fragrant water, naked except for his beaten leather hat. Long strands of their eggs wove around him, sticky gray pearls with tadpoles inside them. Two of the dogs leaned over the opening and barked down at the strange noise of the buckets as he filled them.''
 
How is that for an opening? The style of this novel in the form of interconnected short stories goes from succinct and laconic to wistful and musing, turning on a sixpence. And author Marco North, who has the most wonderful turn of phrase, starts as he means to go on.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Daisy Hildyard
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Yes - that's over eighty-one hours of listening for the purchase of one audio bookaudiobook. All six major novels are read by conmedienne comedienne Alison Larkin and they're presented in the order in which they were published.}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965
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