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"But, my friends, let me digress for a moment, and forgive me for keeping you here: I wish today that we were still the old grains of dust! Our lives were ordered not by laws but by whims." My final entry for German Literature Month is Joseph Roth's Confession of a Murderer. The tale of... |
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Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
The papers are already full of the books of 2009. That's far too soon for me as I have a lot of reading left to do. PlusI won't belimiting the selection ofmy best books of 2009 to those published this year. What I can do,however,is produceLizzy's Best Fiction of the Noughties. Not such a difficult... |
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lizzysiddal.wordpress.com
The good news is the event is on! The not so good is that some do not know that German Literature Month has a new home. Over on my second blog - Lizzy's Literary Life (Volume Two). There you'll find the announcement post, my not-so-shortlist on interpreting this year's prompts, and the twelve posts I've... |
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