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| Top-drawer historical noir, set in 1930's Oklahoma. Cherokee prosecutor tormented by his childhood in an Indian boarding school joins forces with his love interest, an international archaeologist, to track a man who has stolen Indian land and relics. ...more | |
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| By turns dark and comical, the saga of stubbornly independent Icelandic sheepherder in the nineteen-teens. Wise analysis of economic and social forces crushing the common citizen. Brilliant character study of the protagonist Bjatur--and all the victi ...more | |
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| An ambitious and wrenching novel about the conversation between an aging Herman Melville (a customs inspector in New York City) and a disfigured Civil War sniper. The sniper's experiences are vividly recounted and drawn into his meetings with the obs ...more | |
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| Patient, vivid mid-century neo-Realism, family drama. Engaging, sympathetic characters followed through a lifetime. Highly recommend. | |
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| Character- and family-driven story. A novel of secrets and loss. As always, with Strout, compelling interiority, compact family histories involving people of modest means. Contemporary political tensions subtly in play. | |
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| Character- and family-driven story. A novel of secrets and loss. As always, with Strout, compelling interiority, compact family histories involving people of modest means. Contemporary political tensions subtly in play. | |
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| Nancy Lemann's New Orleans novels are always top of my read list, from Lives of the Saints to The Fiery Pantheon. Her latest revives her signature comic repetitions, classical allusions, fey protagonist, and ironic doom-saying. Easy to relish, as alw ...more | |
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| Engaging tension between the director Pabst's restless imagination and the real political horrors of Nazi Germany. Kehlmann deftly renders cinematic vision and technique. A moving and memorable novel. ...more | |
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| Haunting tale of a lonely Hungarian man's serial attachments and turns of fate. Alienation is the through-line, but the protagonist, Istvan, discovers in the end deep attachments in loss. Finely plotted and subtly realized in spare but vivid prose. ...more | |
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| Two battle-scarred Irish criminal frenemies await the arrival, from Tangier, of a young woman tied to both their pasts in a searing family saga fueled by comic banter. Brilliant dialogue in the vein of Roddy Doyle. | |
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