Rainy, dark, nature, summer surroundings for intertwined stories that altogether make a disturbing whole. These are the stories of twelve residents of a small lakeside cottage holiday settlement that intermingle, correspond to each other and continue each other. A holiday โcommunityโ made of strangers that are uninterested in each other, unconnected and that have scarcely …
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I Give It to You by Valerie Martin
Why do people choose to write, discuss, investigate, study historical periods, times and places unconnected to themselves and to their own heritage, history, country and continent they come from? Why would an Italian have to be annoyed with an American writing about Mussolini decades after World War II? Actually, there shouldnโt be a reason. I, …
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
Translated by Michele Hutchison Harsh, bitter, cruel, brutal. These are the words that could describe this novel the best. But, unfortunately for the world we live in, this novel feels true and genuine. How is this much hardship, so many problems and difficulties even possible in a life of a child. In a life of …
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Rabbits for Food by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Sometimes after finishing a book one word comes to mind, over and over again โ honest – it is what oozes out of every word, every comma and full stop inside this book. It is honest, truthful. Raw. Bunny, our narrator, is a person with so much humour and so much heart, so much character …
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