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BOOK REVIEW: ALL YOUR CHILDREN, SCATTERED

A story that crosses four generations of a family, “All Your Children, Scattered” looks at how communication breaks down, and how it might be repaired. Continue Reading BOOK ...

by Adam Ley-Lange • March 9, 2023March 10, 2023

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BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS

Cixous explores the liminal space between fiction and fact, memory and history, novel and memoir.  Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: WELL-KEPT RUINS

by Zadie Loft • December 29, 2022December 29, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS BEYOND COMMAND

The novel traces landmark moments in French history, from the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 to the 1981 election of President François Mitterrand. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: DAUGHTERS ...

by Monica Cardenas • November 10, 2022October 21, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST

Getting Lost leaves one submerged in Ernaux’s world, gasping for breath, and fighting for reason. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: GETTING LOST

by Ingrid Petty • October 13, 2022October 11, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: PINA

Translated from French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, Pina, which won the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, is a rebuke of the romanticised ideals of Tahiti and its golden sands. Continue ...

by Katy Ward • August 18, 2022August 15, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE FAMILIA GRANDE

We tend to think of guilt as having a straight-forward relationship with wrong-doing. We are taught that if you do something wrong, you will feel guilty and if you haven’t ...

by Andy Charman • July 22, 2022July 22, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THREE

Perrin has a beautiful talent for capturing the atmosphere of small-town France Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THREE

by Andy Charman • June 9, 2022May 27, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: NOT EVERYBODY LIVES THE SAME WAY

It is true that not everybody lives the same way, but some of us will for a time… Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: NOT EVERYBODY LIVES THE SAME WAY

by David Kendall • March 10, 2022March 9, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: ROSE ROYAL

This could be her last chance. Luc might be the best she can hope for. Or maybe she has finally just tired of defying expectations… Continue Reading BOOK ...

by Monica Cardenas • March 3, 2022March 3, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOF

Nathacha Appanah takes us on a journey through three generations of a fractured family, told from the different perspectives of a mother and her two children Continue Reading ...

by Jane Wright • January 27, 2022January 27, 2022

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BOOK REVIEW: THE ANOMALY

Winner of the 2020 Goncourt prize, this novel by Hervé Le Tellier feels unusually close to film Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE ANOMALY

by Cécile Seiller • December 17, 2021December 17, 2021