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Tag: Farming

Review: The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan (translated by Howard Goldblatt)

A potent depiction of a time and a place, and seething critique of corruption.

China, Farming, Fiction, Nobel Laureate, Novel, Translation

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Fourteen is a harrowing memoir of growing up gay in regional Australia. It centres on Shannon Malloy’s experiences of relentless bullying in grade nine while he was at an all-boys Catholic school in Yeppoon, Queensland, experiences that drove him to contemplate suicide.

This novella takes place over a single day at Claude Monet’s home in Giverny. While Monet seeks to paint the various moods of the light, his family - his grieving wife Alice, his stepdaughters and grandchildren - have their own quiet moments of revelation.

In Under A White Sky, journalist Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the lengths we’ll have to go to to solve global problems like climate change and extinction. From assisted evolution of coral reefs, to stopping New Orleans sinking into the Gulf of Mexico, to literally filling the sky with diamonds to cool the earth, this is a story about our control of nature.

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