by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
Killed last year in the infamous terror attack at Nairobi’s Westgate mall, Kofi Awoonor was a national treasure in his native Ghana. His career began in 1964 with Rediscovery, and this magnum opus serves as a tribute to his entire long journey charting his...
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
The books that inspired him to write Family Life.
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
A pair of linked stories finds that, as translator Ann Jefferson relates, “[Pierre] Michon’s great theme is the precarious balance between belief and imposture, and the way the greatest aspirations can be complicated by physical desire or the equally...
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
When I heard that Gabriel García Márquez had died, I immediately thought of three things: the fine grit of Iraqi sand that scratched between the page and my fingertips, the metal cot with springs that squeaked like those beneath a prostitute’s...
by bertbaby | Apr 21, 2014 | Book Reviews
Reading books filled with passion is my favorite indulgence, and as a romance author, I get to call it work, too. A great way to sink into reading bliss is multi-author boxed sets, which represent a collaboration of authors, both bestselling and new, usually in the...
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