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Tag: Black writers

Review: The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr.

A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.

Black writers, Fiction, Historical, LGBTIQ, Novel, queer, US

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“It's just the lottery of circumstance, a game she lost before she was even born. Lay down your arms, woman: this isn't a battle, it's a rout. And yet. And yet.”

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel Prize for his “hallucinatory realism”. That’s fully on display in this book about garlic farmers in 1980s China.

My fourth read from the #2021stellaprize shortlist is Evie Wyld’s forensic examination of misogyny in all its forms.

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