Tag: novel
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Gare du Nord
… I needed a different language: a language that was a place of affection and reflection. – Antonio Tabucchi – If there is one quote that summarises my life, then it is this. There may be others too but I picked this one from Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel In altre parole that I am now reading.…
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The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth
I finished two books recently: The Book of Khartoum – A City in Short Fiction edited by Raph Cormack and Mack Schmookler; and The Jungo, Stakes of the Earth by Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin. The former is a collection of stories in a series named “A City in Short Fiction” and it is a very…
J.K. Pikkujämsä 