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Tag Archives: 20booksofsummer22

The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

Love, trauma and memory in Sierra Leone

Posted byimogenglad6th Aug 20226th Aug 2022Posted inUncategorizedTags: 20booksofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, africa, aminatta forna, books, female writers, fiction, sierra leone7 Comments on The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone)

They by Kay Dick (UK)

Long out of print, rediscovered dystopian fiction

Posted byimogenglad31st Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, books, dystopia, Europe, female writers, fiction, Kay Dick, United KingdomLeave a comment on They by Kay Dick (UK)

Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)

Contemporary short stories from Ukraine

Posted byimogenglad23rd Jul 202223rd Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer22, books, Europe, female writers, fiction, Oksana Zabuzhko, short stories, translated literature, ukraine1 Comment on Your Ad Could Go Here by Oksana Zabuzhko (Ukraine)

In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)

Genre-defying exploration of a Jewish family in Soviet Russia

Posted byimogenglad3rd Jul 20223rd Jul 2022Posted inbookTags: 20bookofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, biography, books, conflict, Europe, female writers, russia, russian literature, second world war, translated literature, trauma8 Comments on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova (Russia)

The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)

Women’s Prize shortlister set in and around a haunted bookshop

Posted byimogenglad18th Jun 202218th Jun 2022Posted inbookTags: 20 books of summer, 20booksofsummer22, books, female writers, fiction, Louise Erdrich, prize_winners, the americas and the caribbean, US fiction, USA, Women's Prize shortlist 222 Comments on The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (USA)

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.

Posted byimogenglad11th Jun 202218th Jun 2022Posted inbookTags: 20booksofsummer, 20booksofsummer22, africa, Behold the Dreamers, books, Cameroon, female writers, fiction, Imbolo Mbue3 Comments on Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue (Cameroon)

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