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Review: Light by Eva Figes

A masterful, stroll-around-a-garden novella.

Art, British, Classics, Female writers, Fiction, France, Novella, Painting

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I knew nothing of Gabriela Mistral before reading this collection except that she’d won the Nobel Prize two decades before Pablo Neruda. I imagined her the conservative, religious counterpart to Chile’s other, more famous poet laureate.

The Other Half Of You is the third of Michael Mohammad Ahmad’s autofictional trilogy. It picks up where previous novel The Lebs left off. It’s time for Bani Adam, now finished high school and uni, to find a wife.

“A mermaid does be a revolutionary.”

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