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September 19, 2024 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off on What I Know About You Eric Chacour, A Man With No Title Xavier Le Clerc Review
BookBlast review of What I Know About You by Eric Chacour and A Man With No Title by Xavier Le Clerc Both novels shed light on the complex lives of people living between cultures. Each […]
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BookBlast review of Partita & A Winter in Zürau by Gabriel Josipovici (Carcanet) Partita & A Winter in Zürau are an unsettling, exploratory and seductive read which challenge the essential strangeness of existence. Gabriel Josipovici […]
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BookBlast review of Dear Dickhead by literary punk feminist, Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne Dear Dickehad is a glorious, scorching, epistolary fictional prose rant, translated into fluid, feisty prose by Frank Wynne. Despentes excels […]

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