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Tag Archives: 20booksofsummer22
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (Lebanon)
A introspective novel about a woman cloistered in her apartment in Lebanon for 50 years, accompanied only by great works of literature.
Mr Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood and three other mini book reviews
Three mini reviews of the latest in my 20 books of summer
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)
Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone
They by Kay Dick (UK)
Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction
Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)
Contemporary short stories from Ukraine
In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)
Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)
Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)
Page-turning novel about the often false promises of the American Dream for an immigrant family from Cameroon and a US family with a senior Lehman Bros executive as breadwinner.
Imogen is Reading and Watching the World: On Books, Film, Art & More 