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The Bureau of Unknown Fates Gaëlle Nohant Review

I read the entirety of The Bureau of Unknown Fates with the assumption that the International Tracing Service (ITS) is as fictional as Gaëlle Nohant’s protagonist, Irène. With this lack of knowledge, I followed Irène, a senior agent at the ITS, whose main job is detective-like: take items confiscated from concentration camp prisoners and return them to the owner’s family. (more…)

#biographical fiction #book-to-film adaptations #european culture #family #History #holocaust #identity #politics #psychology #Select childhoodtrauma

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

Reading around the world this month features new releases and updated classics, taking in folklore, international fantasy, dark comedy and biography. An interior designer stumbles into a medieval parallel world; David Bowie finds reinvention in Cold War Berlin; pre-modern Icelandic legends come to life; a homecoming turns into a chaotic murder mystery; and a timely biography unveils Cold War…

#addiction #african literature #avant garde #biography #bohemian lives #books in translation #Classic Reads #Crime fiction #fantasy fiction #History #identity #imperialism #prizewinning authors #psychological thriller #racism #style icons

My Dreadful Body Egana Djabbarova Review

My Dreadful Body is an award-winning debut autofictional novella by Egana Djabbarova. Originally published in Russian and translated into English by Lisa C. Hayden, it is an unsettling, disturbing, strangely absorbing read. I was unsure at first, but I became engrossed. Beautifully written in a strong poetic voice, you can’t help but feel great empathy and admiration for the narrator. (more…)

#biographical fiction #childhood #childhood trauma #diverse books #family #feminism #identity #racism #russian culture #women writers

Reading Around the World Top 5 Books of the Month

This month’s Top 5 Books from around the world takes in five distinct voices embracing sun-baked Mediterranean islands, surreal, tech-fused futures and witchy woods among other spaces, as they go behind the masks we wear to explore the fine line between connection and isolation. You Know The Sun Bothers Me by Ryan Falzon (translated by Joe Gatt) is a contemporary ‘millennial dread’ novel set over…

#Arabic and Middle Eastern Culture #bohemian lives #childhoodtrauma #diverse books #fantasy fiction #French literature #identity #LGBT literature #reading lists

How Book Prizes Propel Authors Beyond Their Best Spotlight

Book prizes are the ultimate tastemakers of the literary world, providing welcome cash to authors; boosting sales for publishers and booksellers; helping readers choose high-quality fiction and nonfiction out of the thousands of books being published annually. A book published by an independent can become an overnight bestseller when awarded a major prize, bringing the author into the spotlight…

#addiction #BookBlast Recommends #censorship #civil war #european culture #human rights #identity #imperialism #literary world #politics #prizewinning authors #protest #publishing insights

Owlish by Dorothy Tse BookBlast Book Club

Interview Rachel van Riel founder Opening the Book & Whichread

Lovers of Franz K. Burhan Sönmez with Kirsty Gunn novelist BookBlast® Book Club

The Winter Warriors Olivier Norek, BookBlast® Book Club at Hatchards

Byron and the Beauty, Muharem Bazdulj BookBlast® Book Club with Istros Books

BookBlast Book Club with Helen Stevenson trs Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix

Rosamund Bartlett & Elena Michajlowska on Chekhov’s Earliest Stories

Far, Rosa Ribas BookBlast® Translation Book Club with Richard Village

The National Telepathy, BookBlast® Translation Book Club with Frank Wynne

Fractured France Andrew Hussey Review

Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation is Andrew Hussey’s latest exploration of French culture and history, published by Granta Books on 11 September. A patchwork of memoir, interviews, cultural references, historic context and actual observations, it is an engaging and informative read. Hussey’s narrative is peppered with references, insights and entertaining anecdotes. The tone is…

#avant garde #book club choice #book recommendations #bookblast europe #civil war #Contemporary French literature #counterculture #educators #family #francophone literature #french society #muslim identity #politics #urban jungle #World War Two

Liquid Reflections Liliane Lijn Review

Liquid Reflections is a headlong dive into the coming-of-age of Liliane Lijn as an artist. The linear, raw narrative starts in Paris in 1958 where she lands from America. She is just eighteen and enrols in the Sorbonne and École du Louvre. The story ends in London in 1966, having taken in Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Spain and New York. As Lijn goes on her way, she transforms everything from paper…

#american culture #avant garde #bohemian lives #bookblast europe #counterculture #family #feminism #french culture #non fiction #parisian life #people in history #the arts

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