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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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| | | | | 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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| | | "I must not wish my life away," she told herself. Elizabeth Taylor's novel, Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is an exploration of old age, loneliness and impending death. The focus of the novel is Mrs. Palfrey and her tedious life as one of a handful of elderly residents at a fading hotel. Mrs. Palfrey, facing... | ||
