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[[Category:New Reviews|Literary Fiction]]__NOTOC__ {{Frontpage|author= Tahi Saihate|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.|isbn= 1916277101}}
{{Frontpage|author=Laura Imai Messina|title=The Phone Box at the End of the World|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingsummary="15" In the northeast of Japan, in Inwate Prefecture a man installed a telephone box in his garden. <!''Inside there is an old black, telephone, disconnected, that carries voices into the wind.'' It is a real place, a necessary place, and I am pleased to see the IMPORTANT NOTE that the author attaches to her story, that the place is not a tourist destination, it is a sacred place, a place that must be left to those who really need it.|isbn=178658039X}}{{Frontpage|author=Amin Maalouf|title=The Disoriented|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HEREfriend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time ago, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY}}{{Frontpage|author=Joanne M Harris|title=A Pocketful of Crows|rating=5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= I have always been of the mind that once you're above picture-->book level and before you get to graphic sex & violence, there is no difference between books for children and books for adults. There are good books and poor ones. And Joanne Harris does not produce poor ones. ''A Pocketful of Crows'' is clearly aimed at the younger readers as witness the use of the middle initial in the author's name to differentiate from her adult offers. Ignore that if you have loved anything from ''Chocolat'' onwards you will know that Harris is mistress of the modern fairy tale. This is no different. It is an utter delight.|isbn=1473222184}}{{Frontpage<!-- Varenne -->|author=Frederic Beigbeder and Frank Wynne (translator)|-title=A Life Without End| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Literary Fiction[[image:0857058738.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwI looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another one. It won't be one of the major numbers, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbers, and if all goes well, I'll be an OBE. (Which of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.amazon) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy.co Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one.uk/dp/0857058738/ref Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life of his genes, and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switch, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=nosim?tag1642860670}}{{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title=thebookbag-21]]The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction| stylesummary="verticalWe live in a post-alignworld: top; textpost-colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post-align: in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left;"by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}}{{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=[[Equator The new novel by Antonin Varenne Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and Sam Taylor (translator)]]heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story.. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}}{{Frontpage|author=Elliot Reed|title=A Key to Treehouse Living|rating=4|genre=General Fiction[[image:3|summary=This is the story of a young boy, William Tyce, who is being raised by his uncle after the death of his mother and his father's abandonment. However, it isn't told in the usual narrative way. Instead, the book is made up of glossary entries, written by William, as a way of describing certain events, situations and emotions.5star It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER.jpg As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earth?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|linkisbn=Category:{1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction= 4|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:genre= Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]]summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape it. 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It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a theme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, who bristles at the indignity of white man against Native 'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at the bat of an eyelid. But this book is about so much more than the 1870s USA, and the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocide. He finds himself trying to find this book's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti{|class-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and there's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Equator by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Kan Caroline Scott -->
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===[[Nights Photographer of the Creaking Bed Lost by Toni KanCaroline Scott]]===
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''Nights of May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the Creaking Bed'' post. There is a collection of short stories by Toni Kanno letter or note with it. The series of stories tell There is nothing written on the back of the lives and lusts photograph. It is a picture of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagosher husband, NigeriaFrancis. Nigeria Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, in this collectionhe has been "missing, believed killed" but that is imbued with its very own heart of darknessnot something that a young widow can believe. Danger stalks She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the shadows and people are word killed for nothing more than a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality and passion that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer of hope. [[Nights Photographer of the Creaking Bed Lost by Toni KanCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Dutch House by Yancey WilliamsAnn Patchett]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonWhen we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. They left re both living at The Dutch House with thirteen famous paintings by Rembrandt, Degas their parents and Vermeer. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about under the whereabouts gaze of the paintings, even promises that the case was about to be solved, portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings are still missinghang on the walls. Yancey Williams has It's a theory, which strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he delaborates goes out with him on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus''a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Elna Conroy is loving, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances this might have affected Maeve and whilst his suspects might seem unlikelyDanny deeply, whobut their primary relationship is with each other. It's to say that he's wrong? Forget the assertions that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilvera bond which only death will break. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Dutch House by Yancey WilliamsAnn Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun A Winter Book by Clare ClarkTove Jansson]]===
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In 1930Tove Jansson's Berlinworldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expertwritten in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the simplicity, naivety and Rachmannsheer 'goodness' that would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. Simple drawings, a mysterious art dealersimple stories, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery simple goodness. What is often forgotten outside of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh. Based on her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for adults as well as children…and that she had a true story and unfolding through feeling for the subsequent rise of Hitler natural world and the Nazis, the discovery simple life that not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of how the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusionworld might be. [[In The Full Light of the Sun A Winter Book by Clare ClarkTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Phoenix of Florence Summer Book by Philip KazanTove Jansson]]===
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Deep in Tove Jansson's short novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Tuscan countryside of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives a massacre that destroys Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her family and homenative Scandinavia. Alone in the forestBook yourself an afternoon this Summer, she meets a band of soldiers who, believing her to be a boy train and develop her – take yourself and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate to avoid any situation in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the wayThe Summer Book somewhere quiet, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murders. As he digs further preferably within sight and uncovers links to his own family history, Celavini must revisit sound of the past he shares with Onoriasea, in the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history settle back and prepare to rest, before it's too late..be transported. [[The Phoenix of Florence Summer Book by Philip KazanTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Snowflake, AZ by Douglas KennedyMarcus Sedgwick]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's 'This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The Great Wide Opennovel'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, and it often feels as though that was s story follows a young man named Ash in the intention. Though the novel often feels like process of joining a pastiche community of sick people in the great American novel – epic in scopecuriously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, preoccupied with matters but it's not a sickness you've heard of money . Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and literaturefabrics, fixated with New York pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – it often feels more like Kennedy and their only ''cure'' is trying to reverse-engineer stay in the town away from the concept altogetherreal world. InitiallyThough it's about a real place, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family drama, people in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70s, and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reaganare fictional. Though it takes It really is a place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90sapart, it notably always keeps one an eye on quite literally cut off from the present day (Trump, of course, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themoutside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[The Great Wide Open Snowflake, AZ by Douglas KennedyMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[Deviation The Nightjar by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Deborah Hewitt]]===
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For those of you who have read books of ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in the Nazi camps – London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and of courseher life begins to unravel, for those of you who have not – this can be considered a next stepfast. It beginsFrom that very moment, after allher life is flooded with magic, with someone escaping Dachau and fleeing her work assignment during a bombing raidloss, expectation and you'd not blame her one minuteparticularly, as betrayal. As everything around her career was deemed to be cess-tank cleaner and sewage unblocker by the Germans. In Munichshifts, all that she stumbles on help to get her to what seems to be a camp for non-native civilians to look for workknows, or company, or transport elsewhereall that she thinks she knows, either official or otherwisemust change. But then the next chapter sees her going back into the camp next to Dachau once moreWho can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, and by then eyebrows are being raised. can she even trust herself? [[Deviation The Nightjar by Luce d'Eramo and Anne Milano Appel (translator)Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Reckoning Train Man by Clar Ni ChonghaileAndrew Mulligan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] As the blurb says, ''In a cottage in Normandy, Lina Rose is writing to the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaile's second novel is a series of letters addressed to Diane. Lina is now in her seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoption. It was not a good meeting. [[The Reckoning by Clar Ni Chonghaile|Full Review]]<!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473691206.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
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I came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, even though it is [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsAndy Mulligan|the author's]] debut in the adult novel market (hence the more mature name – he used to be an Andy). I thought it simple to sum up, the tale of a middle-aged man who knows too much about train travel having his life turned around in the most pleasant way. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[:Category:Historical FictionChris Cleave|Historical FictionChris Cleave]], and [[:Category:Literary FictionDavid Nicholls|Literary FictionDavid Nicholls]]. I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.
Married to English Professor Ernest Weekley, aristocrat Frieda Von Richtofen finds herself stifled by the confines of married life. Visiting family in Munich, she becomes captivated by the ideas of revolution and free love. Meeting the penniless writer D.H. Lawrence, she finds herself drawn into a passionate affair and a tempestuous relationship, changing the course of both their lives, and unleashing a creative outpouring that will change the course of literature foreverMore fool me. [[Frieda Train Man by Annabel AbbsAndrew Mulligan|Full Review]]
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===[[House of Glass A Perfect Explanation by Susan FletcherEleanor Anstruther]]===
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Clara suffered from ''Osteogenesis imperfecta'': these days it would probably be called brittle bone disease and whilst there is still no cureEnid Campbell was a woman who, treatments have advanced. At on the beginning face of the twentieth century it meant that Clara was confined to her home, living had everything. Leading the life through a window of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and the tales her mother, Charlottesplendour, brought home. Both became far too knowledgeable about bones glamourous locales and the sounds they made on breaking. Charlotte would ''list bones like continents''high expectations. Clara would only escape the house after her motherOnly Enid's death - of a tumour at the age of thirty nine - life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and in those close to her wanderings discovered Kew Gardens. Her growing knowledge After losing custody of tropical plants led her children, Enid sells her son to her sister for £500 – but is this an act of greed, or an act of desperation? Exploring the offer true story of a job stocking a newly-built glass house at Shadowbrook in Gloucestershireher own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[House of Glass A Perfect Explanation by Susan FletcherEleanor Anstruther|Full Review]]
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===[[The Water Thief Choke by Claire HajajSofie Laguna]]===
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Nick is in the middle There's a dull, dispiriting pang of wedding preparations disappointment that comes when he decides to leave his fiancée behind in London you try something everyone else loves and take up a post in some un-named west African country providing engineering support for the building of a childrenfind out that you's hospitalre really not into it. Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. He has no idea what he is getting himself intoBooks are like that, but doubly so. [[The Water Thief Choke by Claire HajajSofie Laguna|Full Review]]
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===[[Aftershocks Equator by A N WilsonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)]]===
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In It strikes me that nobody can speak well of the Wild West outside the walls of a country very much like New Zealandtheme park. Our agent to see how bad it was here is Pete Ferguson, but who bristles at the same time most avowedly not, two women will find love. Strong love too, for our narrator will say that her first attraction for her partner was the only thing to make sense indignity of all those exaggerated songs shewhite man against Native 'Indian'd heard, who spends days being physically sick while indulging in a buffalo hunt, and books who hates the way man – and poems she'd readwoman, and plays she'd acted in of course – works can turn against fellow man at the bat of art that had until then seemed sheer hyperbolean eyelid. It was entirely unrequited love for quite some time, but it does burgeon, or But this book is about so we're promised from much more than the off1870s USA, because of something quite drastic – a major earthquake very much like and the one that hit Christchurchattendant problems with gold rushes, but at the same time most avowedly notpioneer spirits and racial genocide. This He finds himself trying to find this book then 's version of Utopia, namely the Equator, where everything is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the combined exploration of ground to counter the lovers anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be better. But that equator is a long way away – and the story there's a whole adventure full of the quake. Mexico and Latin America between him and it… [[Aftershocks Equator by A N WilsonAntonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)|Full Review]]
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===[[Tirzah and Nights of the Prince of Crows Creaking Bed by Deborah Kay DaviesToni Kan]]===
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This is a quiet but remarkable story, written in a style reminiscent of E. M. Forster, ''[Tirzah and Nights of the Prince of CrowsCreaking Bed'' has no great and stirring action but rather small ripples that make a huge impact. Tirzah is a young girl collection of sixteen raised in a small Welsh town in the 1970s short stories by highly religious parents as part of a strict religious communityToni Kan. The book follows Tirzah though a tumultuous year as she tries to decide who she wants to be, and what she wants to do with her life. [[Tirzah and the Prince series of stories tell of Crows by Deborah Kay Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Brooke Fieldhouse -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789013992.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789013992/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] It was a hot day in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the day, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night before. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult route, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passenger, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled the German way.'' Of the two job interviews, the first was with an up-lives and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good for Pulse's career. The second was with a run-down practice based in lusts of an old London house and headed by Patrick Lloyd-Lewis, whose wife, Freia, had recently died in unexplained circumstances. The link with the dream of the night before was too much for Pulse to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure assortment of the mystery. [[The Gilded Ones by Brooke Fieldhouse|Full Review]] <!-- Cullen -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0718189140.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0718189140/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] William Woolf is a letter detective, working characters living in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters of love, guilt, death, hopearound Lagos, and everyday lifeNigeria. [[The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen|Full Review]] <!-- Dehnel -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786073579.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786073579/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''This is the mysterious nature of storytelling: the same start can also mean different endingsNigeria, and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrativein this collection, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art imbued with its very own heart of storytellingdarkness. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, of side notes and elaborations, but above all that of affection; for both Danger stalks the story shadows and the storyteller. What makes us who we people are if not our culture and heritage and in this book our narrator re-lives and re-tells the story of his heritage told to him by his grandmother. [[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)|Full Review]] <!-- Wise -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857302183.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0857302183/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Emperor of Shoes'' is the story of Alex Cohen, the heir to a lucrative shoe factory based in southern China. More idealistic killed for nothing more than his profit-obsessed father, and less motivated solely by the bottom line, he's unsure of himself: unsure whether he can continue his father's success. But complications arise when he starts to question how morally sound the business really is, and whether the workers are being given a fair deal. [[The Emperor of Shoes by Spencer Wise|Full Review]] <!-- Vodolazkin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786072718.jpg|link=http://wwwwrong look.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786072718/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Aviator by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital bed Kan writes with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. He is tended by a single doctor, Doctor Geiger, who gives him a pencil vitality and notebook and encourages him passion that allows these cynical stories to write down his observations and memories. The notebook is thick, like achieve a novel. How can Innokenty fill it if he cannot remember anything? But slowly the memories start to return, memories glimmer of childhood holidays at the beach, of life in the dacha, of the airfield and the aviators..hope.and the island...it seems like some memories may be better left buried. He remembers that he is the same age as the century, born in 1900. But if that is the case, how is he still a young man when the pills by his bedside are dated 1999? [[The Aviator Nights of the Creaking Bed by Eugene Vodolazkin and Lisa Hayden (Translator)Toni Kan|Full Review]]
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