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  Los juguetes de la guerra

  lilladeserta.cat - Per sifuro

  Avui us parlaré de Los juguetes de la guerra, un llibre de Carolina Pobla publicat per Maeva que em va arribar de sorpresa a mig confinament. Sí, …

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  9 Free Books to Get Right Now for World Book Day

  bookriot.com - Cassie Gutman

  For the past several years, Amazon has celebrated World Book Day (April 23) by offering free ebooks from around the globe, ranging from award-winning …

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  Rediscovering Natalia Ginzburg

  The New Yorker - Joan Acocella

  In Ginzburg’s time, Italian literature was still largely a men’s club. So she wanted to write like a man. In an early novella by the Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg—it has just been reissued by New Directions, as “The Dry Heart” (translated by Frances Frenaye)—the narrator walks into her husband’s …

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  36 New Fall Books That Everyone Will Be Talking About

  Bustle - Cristina Arreola

  Summer gets all the credit for being the good reading season, but truthfully, wouldn't you rather read by a fire with a cup of tea than by pool — …

• Man Booker Prize International Version: Let's Discover a Polish Autor

  

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  Olga Tokarczuk's 'extraordinary' Flights wins Man Booker International prize

  The Guardian - Alison Flood

  The Polish novelist takes £50,000 prize, to be shared with her translator, for a story that moves from ‘wit and gleeful mischief to real emotional texture’ Olga Tokarczuk has become the first Polish writer to win the Man Booker International prize, which goes to the best work of translated fiction …

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  Vernon Subutex 1 by Virginie Despentes review – foul-mouthed satire of modern France

  The Guardian - Catherine Taylor

  Shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize, this withering examination of France’s political polarisation is achingly hip With the first in a picaresque trilogy, now shortlisted for the Man Booker international prize, Virginie Despentes has delivered both an achingly cool punk burlesque and …