New Fiction from Around the World - January 2008
Away
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At once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, who emigrates to America after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom.
Animal's People
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Ever since he can remember, Animal has gone on all fours, the catastrophic result of what happened on That Night when, thanks to an American chemical company, the Apocalypse visited his slum. Now not quite twenty, he leads a hand-to-mouth existence with his dog Jara and a crazy old nun called Ma Franci, and spends his nights fantasising about Nisha, the daughter of a local musician, and wondering what it must be like to get laid.
The Quiet Girl
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, Hoegs masterful, inventive novel centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
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John Mortimer's delightful new Rumpole novel sees the magician of the Old Bailey, and Pommeroy's Wine Bar, at his implacable best as he defends our ancient freedoms, even as he remains uneasy about what it is exactly Hilda is writing.
Sylvia
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Sylvia is a story of the Children's Crusade in the year 1212. It is perhaps the strangest true event to have taken place in European history recreated here from scattered medieval Latin and Arabic texts as the story of Sylvia; a remarkable, talented, and eccentric young woman who prevails over poverty, brutality and bigotry.
The Silent Raga
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Meet Janaki and Mallika, two sisters from a middle-class Brahmin family in Madras, India. Janaki is a musical prodigy, sublimely gifted on the veena, but will soon be eighteen and dreads her aunt's schemes for an arranged marriage. Eschewing tradition, she runs off with a Muslim Bollywood star. Years later, Mallika receives a letter from Janaki, who is returning to Madras.