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Toni Morrison— Home, A Memorial to Civil Rights and The Korean War
Frank Money’s home is in rural Georgia, a small town just South of Atlanta. Home is the new novel by Nobel and Pulitzer winner Toni Morrison that tells Frank’s story. As the novel begins, Frank is speaking to the author … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction, Poetry
Tagged American Literature, Ft. Lawton, Korean War, Memorial Day, postaweek, Toni Morrison
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Carlos Fuentes—Author of The Doll Queen is dead at 83
The major newspapers yesterday (15 May, 2012) marked of the death of distinguished Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. The tributes to the sometimes polemical author and his accomplishments are glowing: all is forgiven in death. One of the simplest and most appropriate … Continue reading
Posted in Reading, Spanish, Translation
Tagged biblioteca digital ciudad seva, Carlos Fuentes, luis lópez nieves, Mexico, postaweek, Short Story
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Jo Nesbø: Introducing Norwegian Policeman Harry Hole
The migrating Redbreast is a harbinger of spring in Oslo; seeing one in November is unusual. In the opening scene of the Jo Nesbø’s police thriller Redbreast, two bored police officers are watching an overwintering Robin Redbreast swoop down to … Continue reading
Téa Obreht—Tigers, Myths and Death Rites In The Balkans
In one of those insane acts that define modern war, NATO airplanes in 1999 (Operation Noble Anvil) bombed Belgrade and a random bomb destroyed part of the Belgrade Zoo. Prince, a Siberian tiger became so traumatized that he started eating … Continue reading
Posted in Fiction
Tagged American Literature, Balkans, Belgrade Zoo, Deathless Man, jungle book rudyard kipling, postaweek, Serbia, shere kahn, Slovenia, Yugoslavia
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