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THE SERIOUS GAME by Hjalmar Soderberg
Set at the turn of the previous century, THE SERIOUS GAME tells how Arvid, an ambitious and educated young man, meets Lydia, the daughter of a landscape painter, one summer and falls in love. Lydia, however, has other suitors, and Arvid is frightened of being tied by his emotions.
BERJI KRISTIN by Latife Tekin
A nihilistic wit reminiscent of Samuel Beckett.' Independent on Sunday
The cast-offs of modern urban society are driven out onto the edges of the city and left to make a life there for themselves. They are not, however, in any natural wilderness, but in a world opf refuse and useless junk - a place which denies any form of sustainable life.
DEAR SHAMELESS DEATH by Latife Tekin
'Unforgettable... She has written down what before has never been written down' John Berger
A strange, magical story of a young girl growing up in a modern Turkey, from her birth in a small rural village haunted by fairies and demons to her traumatic move to the big city.
SWORDS OF ICE by Latife Tekin
Would-be entrepreneur Halilhan rescues a red Volvo from the scrap heap, believing that it will lead him to big money in business ventures.
PROBLEMSKI HOTEL by Dimitri Verhulst
Dimitri Verhulst, an investigative journalist, had himself locked up in the asylum seekers centre at Arendonk for several days for the Flemish magazine Deus ex Machina. The result is an unabashedly politically incorrect novel, Problemski Hotel. Told from the perspective of asylum seeker,
K: THE ART OF LOVE by Hong Ying
Set in 1930s China and based on a true story this is a tragic tale of romance and sexual desire. Beautiful, intelligent and schooled in the ancient Taoist arts of love, Lin Cheng is the wife of a provincial university professor. Julian Bell, son of Vanessa Bell and the darling of the Bloomsbury set, is newly arrived in China and hungry for experience. Their mutual attraction leads to a passionate physical affair.
PEACOCK CRIES by Hong Ying
The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River is the largest construction project in the history of China, and opens in June 2004. These famous areas of natural beauty will have their height cut to one third by the Reservoir, which will submerge the whole area, the cradle of Chinese civilization for three millenia. Liu’s husband, Li Lusheng, is Director of the Dam project, and is being unfaithful. Liu goes to visit him and on finding out about his infidelity flees in disgust to her old home, Liang, where protestors against the Dam persuade her to join them.
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