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A blog about books and writing, through rainbow-tinted glasses. Every book gets a gay rating.

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Tag: War

Review: At Night All Blood Is Black by David Diop (translated by Anna Moschovakis)

A potent depiction of war.

Contemporary, Fiction, France, Senegal, War, World War I

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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I’ve been enjoying reading the two Pulitzer-winning plays of Tennessee Williams.

You‘ve probably seen the memes: A historian contemplates two women who lived together their entire lives and never married men. Friends? the historian wonders.

The second of Yumna Kassab’s books is much like the first, a novel in pieces. Set in and around Tamworth, NSW, it is a deeply human portrait of communities dealing with the challenges of rural life: isolation, tribalism, suicide and above all drought.

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