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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<!-- Anstruther -->|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:1784631647.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.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy.amazon Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one.co 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.uk/dp/1784631647/ref 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=thebookbag-21]]Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5| stylegenre= Literary Fiction|summary="verticalWe live in a post-alignworld: top; textpost-align: colonialism, post-modernism, post truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- 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=[[A Perfect Explanation The new novel by Eleanor Anstruther]]Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and 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:5star|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. It runs alphabetically, starting with ABSENCE, then moving to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. 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.jpg|linkisbn=Category:{1911545418}}{{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:= 4|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. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, [[:Category:Historical Fictionwho can you turn to? |Historical Fiction]]isbn=0062936867}}
Enid Campbell was a woman who, on the face of it, had everything. Leading the life of an aristocrat – full of inherited wealth and splendour, glamourous locales and high expectations. Only Enid's life has been plagued by mental illness – undiagnosed, untreated and threatening both Enid and those close to her. After losing custody of 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 true story of her own grandmother, Eleanor Anstruther has found the perfect subject for an explosive, moving and beautifully well written debut. [[A Perfect Explanation by Eleanor Anstruther{|Full Review]]class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Laguna Caroline Scott -->
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===[[The Choke Photographer of the Lost by Sofie LagunaCaroline Scott]]===
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May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There's is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It is a dullpicture of her husband, dispiriting pang of disappointment Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that comes when you try is not something everyone else loves and find out that youa young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing're really not into it. Coffee. Ice skating. A new Netflix series. Books are like that, but doubly sodisbelieving the word killed. [[The Choke Photographer of the Lost by Sofie LagunaCaroline Scott|Full Review]]
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===[[Equator The Dutch House by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Ann Patchett]]===
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It strikes me that nobody can speak well When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the Wild West outside former owners whose oil paintings still hang on 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 It'Indian', who spends days being physically sick while indulging in s a buffalo hunt, strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant and who hates the way man – and woman, of course – can turn against fellow man at closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the bat of an eyelidfamily owns. But this book Elna Conroy is about so much more than loving, but absent increasingly often until the 1870s USA, and point comes when the attendant problems with gold rushes, pioneer spirits and racial genocidechildren are told that she will not be returning. He finds himself trying to find In other circumstances this book's version of Utopiamight have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, namely the Equator, where everything but their primary relationship is upside down, people walk on their heads with rocks in their pockets to keep them on the ground to counter the anti-gravity, and where, who knows, things might actually be bettereach other. But that equator is a long way away – and thereIt's a whole adventure full of Mexico and Latin America between him and it… bond which only death will break. [[Equator The Dutch House by Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Ann Patchett|Full Review]]
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===[[Nights of the Creaking Bed A Winter Book by Toni KanTove Jansson]]===
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Tove Jansson''Nights s worldwide fame lasts on the Moomin books, written in the 1940s and later becoming television characters of the Creaking Bedsimplicity, naivety and sheer 'goodness' is a collection of short stories by Toni Kanthat would later produce flowerpot men or teletubbies. The series of Simple drawings, simple stories tell of the lives and lusts of an assortment of characters living in and around Lagos, Nigeriasimple goodness. Nigeria, in this collection, What is imbued with its very own heart often forgotten outside of darkness. Danger stalks the shadows and people are killed her native Finland is that she was a serious writer…that she wrote for nothing more than adults as well as children…and that she had a wrong look. Kan writes with a vitality feeling for the natural world and passion the simple life that allows these cynical stories to achieve a glimmer not only informed those child-like trolls but went far beyond any fantasy of hopehow the world might be. [[Nights of the Creaking Bed A Winter Book by Toni KanTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[The Resurrection of Jesus Summer Book by Yancey WilliamsTove Jansson]]===
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In March 1990 two police officers entered BostonTove Jansson's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museumshort novel about Summer is several worlds away from the Moomintrolls she is most famous for outside her native Scandinavia. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtBook yourself an afternoon this Summer, Degas and Vermeer. take yourself and The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts Summer Book somewhere quiet, preferably within sight and sound of the paintingssea, even promises that the case was about settle back and prepare to be solved, the paintings are still missing. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'', and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who'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 Quicksilvertransported. [[The Resurrection of Jesus Summer Book by Yancey WilliamsTove Jansson|Full Review]]
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===[[In The Full Light of the Sun Snowflake, AZ by Clare ClarkMarcus Sedgwick]]===
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] In 1930's Berlin, three people obsessed with art find themselves swept up into a scandal. Emmeline, a wayward young student, Julius, an anxious middle-aged art expert, and Rachmann, a mysterious art dealer, live in the politically turbulent Weimar Berlin, and soon find themselves whipped up into excitement over the surprise discovery of thirty-two previously unknown paintings by Vincent Van Gogh3. Based on a true story and unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, the discovery of the art allows these characters to explore authenticity, vanity and self-delusion. [[In The Full Light of the Sun by Clare Clark|Full Review]] <!-- Kazan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0749024801.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0749022132/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Phoenix of Florence by Philip Kazan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]
Deep This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the Tuscan countryside process of fifteenth century Italy, Onoria survives joining a massacre that destroys her family and home. Alone community of sick people in the forestcuriously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, she meets but it's not a band sickness you've heard of soldiers who. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, believing her to be a boy train and develop her radiation – and the determined Onoria becomes a mercenary – desperate their only ''cure'' is to avoid any situation stay in which she may feel vulnerable again. Along the way, she meets ex-soldier Celavini, whose journey to Florence sees him investigating two brutal murderstown away from the real world. As he digs further and uncovers links to his own family historyThough it's about a real place, Celavini must revisit the past he shares with Onoriapeople in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, in quite literally cut off from the hope that they can lay the ghosts of their shared history outside world – people are even required to rest, decontaminate themselves thoroughly before it's too late..becoming fully integrated. [[The Phoenix of Florence Snowflake, AZ by Philip KazanMarcus Sedgwick|Full Review]]
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===[[The Great Wide Open Nightjar by Douglas KennedyDeborah Hewitt]]===
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Douglas Kennedy's ''The Great Wide OpenNightjar'' has been described as epic by just about everyone, is an unusual and it often feels as though that was the intentionexciting story. Though the novel often feels like Alice Wyndham lives a pastiche of the great American novel – epic normal life in scope, preoccupied with matters of money London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and literatureher life begins to unravel, fixated with New York – it often feels more like Kennedy is trying to reverse-engineer the concept altogetherfast. InitiallyFrom that very moment, the novel presents itself as an intimate study of family dramaher life is flooded with magic, in the latter half of the novel it smoothly turns to examining the turn of American society since the 70sloss, expectation and the rapid rise of the hyper-capitalist neoliberal values that have dominated the west since the election of Ronald Reaganparticularly, betrayal. Though it takes place over a twenty-year period between the 70s and the 90sAs everything around her shifts, it notably always keeps one an eye on the present day (Trumpall that she knows, of courseall that she thinks she knows, makes an inevitable and slightly incongruous cameo) such that what happens links subtly into current affairs without ever explicitly referencing themmust change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Great Wide Open Nightjar by Douglas KennedyDeborah Hewitt|Full Review]]
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===[[The Reckoning Train Man by Clar Ni ChonghaileAndrew Mulligan]]===
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As the blurb says, ''In a cottage in NormandyI came to this book thinking I knew just what to expect, Lina Rose even though it is writing to [[:Category:Andy Mulligan|the daughter she abandoned as a baby''…the whole of Chonghaileauthor's second ]] debut in the adult novel is a series of letters addressed market (hence the more mature name – he used to Dianebe an Andy). Lina is now 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 her seventies and Diane is a mother herself. They have met just once since Lina gave her up for adoptionthe most pleasant way. It was not a good meeting. I hadn't opened it when I'd shelved it alongside [[The Reckoning by Clar Ni Chonghaile:Category:Chris Cleave|Full ReviewChris Cleave]]<!-- Abbs -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|, and [[image:1473691206.jpgCategory:David Nicholls|link=http://wwwDavid Nicholls]].amazon I expected some whimsy, some warmth and some affirmative loveliness.co.uk/dp/1473691206/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
More fool me. [[Train Man by Andrew 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, series of stories tell of the lives and what she wants to do with her life. [[Tirzah and the Prince lusts of an assortment 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 characters living in 1984 and Pulse had two job interviews for the dayaround Lagos, but the heat wasn't the only reason why he wasn't feeling on top form. He'd had a disturbing dream the night beforeNigeria. He'd been following a Porsche on a difficult routeNigeria, probably somewhere in the Alps when the Porsche went off the road. The passengerthis collection, a man, was dead, but the woman was still alive. ''I'm Freia...'', she said. ''It's spelled the German wayis imbued with its very own heart of darkness.'' Of the two job interviews, Danger stalks the first was with an up-shadows and-coming design studio in Brighton and it would almost certainly be good people are killed for Pulse's careernothing more than a wrong look. The second was Kan writes with a run-down practice based in an old London house vitality 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 passion that allows these cynical stories to refuse the offer of a job. He couldn't resist the lure 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 achieve a letter detective, working in the Dead Letters Depot in East London. He spends his days deciphering smudged addresses, tracking down mysterious people and reading endless letters glimmer of love, guilt, death, hope, and everyday life. [[The Lost Letters Nights 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 endings, and different starts can lead to the same finale. It's all subordinate to the greater narrative, which starts somewhere in Kiev''. This beautiful book is exactly that, the mysterious art of storytelling. The wayward meanderings of memory, of tangents and digressions, of side notes and elaborations, but above all that of affection; for both the story and the storyteller. What makes us who we 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 Creaking Bed by his grandmother. [[Lala by Jacek Dehnel and Antonia Lloyd-Jones (translator)Toni Kan|Full Review]]
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