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Tag: War

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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The hype is real about this one, and well deserved I reckon!

A friend lent me Ted Hughes’ poetry Crow to read. I was expecting it to be mad and it delivered.

I’m equally drawn to and unsettled by the Pacific Ocean - so much deep water, so little land. The fact that islands as far apart as Hawai’i, New Zealand and Easter Island were settled a long time ago by Polynesian people seems a near-impossible feat of navigation and endurance.

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