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Tag: 1930s

Review: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

The Light Years is the perfect novel for a society sleep-walking towards disaster.

1930s, Classics, England, Fiction, Historical, World War II

Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste

An ambitious novel about war and memory.

1930s, Ethiopia, Fiction, Historical, Italy, Novel, War

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I’ve been enjoying reading the two Pulitzer-winning plays of Tennessee Williams.
You‘ve probably seen the memes: A historian contemplates two women who lived together their entire lives and never married men. Friends? the historian wonders.
The second of Yumna Kassab’s books is much like the first, a novel in pieces. Set in and around Tamworth, NSW, it is a deeply human portrait of communities dealing with the challenges of rural life: isolation, tribalism, suicide and above all drought.
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