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'Probably the most atmospheric Greek novel of the year' Greek Vogue Rodakis lives alone until one day a fugitive woman and her daughter land on his doorstep. They persuade him to revive his father's beekeeping business, with dramatic results. |
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A young man is offered a large amount of money to spend time at a deserted hotel where he is questioned about his opinions and beliefs. Things turn sinister when he tries to find out what has happened to previous hotel 'guests'. |
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In ten intimately interwoven stories, in prose that swings fluidly from gritty realism to heightened metafiction, David Hollander maps an American landscape that is at once vividly familiar and highly exotic, creating an unforgettable portrait of the passage to adulthood and the search for identity, certain to resonate with legions of readers. |
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In these apocalyptic 'scenes from a history as yet unwritten', America has become hopelessly bogged down in a protracted Operation Desert Storm, Elvis has returned from the dead as a tormented political assassin, there are aliens in the White House and giant monsters on the rampage. |
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In her stunning literary debut, Nora Okja Keller tells the hidden story of Akiko - sold into sexual slavery as a 'comfort woman' during World War II - and her American-born daughter, Beccah, unaware of her mother's history until after Akiko's death. |
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'America Town' in post-war Korea is a bad place to end up: a garish shanty town of cheap bars and organized prostitution in which mothers fight with daughters over the dollars to be earned off the GIs stationed nearby. |
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Maya, named after the Sanskrit word for 'illusion', is a girl on the cusp of womanhood. Her fate is tied, via an arranged marriage, to Ravindra. In prose similar to a hymn to cultural differences, Khalap has created a miniature microcosm of Indian society. |
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