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Review: The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis:; Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood-soaked images start haunting her thoughts, Yeong-hye decides to purge her mind and renounce eating meat. In a country where … Continue reading
Review: CoDex 1962 by Sjon
Buy it Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962—twenty years in the making—is Sjón’s epic three-part masterpiece Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one … Continue reading
Review: Red Milk by Sjon
Buy it Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism. In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. … Continue reading
Review: Four Minutes by Nataliya Deleva
Buy Here: Open Letter, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Giving voice to people living on the periphery in post-communist Bulgaria, Four Minutes centers around Leah, an orphan who suffered daily horrors growing up, and now struggles to integrate into society as a … Continue reading
Review: Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin
Buy here: Open Letter, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: As if Marguerite Duras wrote Convenience Store Woman – a beautiful, unexpected novel from a debut French Korean author It’s winter in Sokcho, a tourist town on the border between South and North Korea. The … Continue reading
Review: African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
Buy here: bookshop Synopsis: Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to … Continue reading
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