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|title=The City Son
|author=Samrat Upadhyay
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Didi lives in a remote Nepali village. Her husband, always referred to by what is presumably a title rather than a name ''the Masterji'' teaches in the city. He rarely comes home to see his wife and sons.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1616953810</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alison Moore
Now: fast forward to 2009. Else now lives in the town the hamlet has grown into, on the back of oil money. Her daughter has a daughter of her own, but still spends many a night not coming home. ''She must have met someone'' the eleven-year-old granddaughter says matter-of-factly. Else has made a life for herself, running a spa, looking after her daughter and her granddaughter. A quiet life, but not such a bad one.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954290</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Beggar and the Hare
|author=Tuomas Kyro
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Our hero, Vatanescu, is a fish out of water. He's a father without his family, a man without a home, a possibility without a chance. He's being transported across Europe by a criminal people-smuggler, who is also packing Vatanescu's sister off to the cosmetic surgeon then the prostitute trade. Our hero is destined to sit in discomfort, sleet and in hateful gazes of others as a beggar on the streets of Helsinki. But at the same time impossibilities are amassing – one of which splits Vatanescu from his minder/mentor, and leaves him on the run with a fistful of useless currency. A further impossibility gifts him a friendly, warm companion – a rabbit being chased by local youths jumps into the sanctuary of his arms, and becomes a welcome source of focus. From then on many more jumps will be made from one impossibility to another, as the life of this illegal immigrant begins to resonate across his adopted homeland…
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780721641</amazonuk>
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