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Film review: Funny Games (Austria)
Before I get started on my book reviews for 20 books of summer, I wanted to do a little write-up of this really horrible 1997 Austrian film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Funny Games, notorious for its focus on sadistic violence, is now heralded as something of an art-house classic, and inspired a 2007 …
The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna (Finnish book of the month)
Blackly comic novel of escapades involving a disillusioned Helsinki journalist and his adopted hare
A Moth to a Flame by Stig Dagerman (Sweden)
Translated by Benjamin Mier-Cruz Reviewed by Imogen G. I took some time out from Japanese culture to read the Swedish novel A Moth to a Flame for Annabel’s month of Nordic FINDS. By the end of this very beautifully written, psychologically intense novel, however, I felt a bit sullied after spending so much time with …
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Review no 47: Ismail Kadare, Broken April/The Doll (Albania)
A double helping of books by Albania’s best-known literary export, Ismail Kadare
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