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Round-up of Random Recent Reads

Just a few musings on books I’ve read but been too distracted to review properly: The Detour by Gerbrand Bakker, tr. David Colmer (Vintage). This won the 2013 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. It’s about a Dutch woman living in Wales … Continue reading

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Bar Flaubert by Alexis Stamatis

Bar Flaubert by Alexis Stamatis, translated from Greek by David Connolly, was one of a lovely parcel of books sent to me by the publisher Arcadia Books. First published in Greece in 2000, the English edition was published in 2007. … Continue reading

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