A tremendously rewarding novel about love in the cruellest of places.
Tag: Historical
Review: The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Light Years is the perfect novel for a society sleep-walking towards disaster.
Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
An ambitious novel about war and memory.
Review: The Adventures Of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Fiona Mackintosh and Iona Macintyre)
Lesbians! Cowboys! Argentina!
Review: A Treacherous Country by K. M. Kruimink
A strange and misty novel set in colonial Van Diemen’s Land.
Review: Stone Sky Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe
Stone Sky Gold Mountain offers a rearranging of Australian history, reminding us other settlers were also here in the early days.
Review: Half Of A Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A story of love and war in Nigeria in the 1960s, Half Of A Yellow Sun reaches outwards through history.
Review: Damascus by Christos Tsolkias
Caravaggio perfected painting people at the exact moment when dark gives way to light. In Damascus, Tsolkias achieves the same effect in words.
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