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Deon Meyer–BLOOD SAFARI
“You don’t know what it’s like here. We have troubles. Big troubles…It’s like the veld in drought. Ready to burn. We beat out the fires. We run from one fire to the next fire and we beat out the...
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Juan de Recacoechea–AMERICAN VISA
“If I could just chug twenty beers and then go to sleep, they’d find my cold body the next day. It was the only death a screw-up like me deserved. The law of life states that he who cannot rise...
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Colum McCann–LET THE GREAT WORLD SPIN
Note: This novel was WINNER of the (US) National Book Award in 2009, and WINNER in 2011 of the IMPAC Dublin Award, the literary world’s most valuable prize. “At his center [Philippe Petit] never...
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James Church–THE CORPSE IN THE KORYO
“It’s not that we don’t like foreigners. It’s not foreigners, it’s ourselves we don’t like. In our minds, we are small, quivering, bowing, submissive, beaten, cowering dogs. If we like foreigners,...
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Carmen Posadas–CHILD’S PLAY
““The most infallible philosophical theory on human nature is the one “[a friend] relishes: what he calls ‘The Julio Iglesias Theory.’ According to this, people behave exactly as the song says:...
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C. E. Morgan–ALL THE LIVING
“She felt guilt for her meanness, she didn’t know what was wrong with her and thought, in her tangled mind, she wasn’t made like other women. There was some softness in her, but it was so deep in a...
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Bernardo Atxaga–THE ACCORDIONIST’S SON
“Have you ever seen one of those great steel balls that hang from a crane and that they use to knock down buildings? The crane lifts up the ball and lets it fall on the building. That’s exactly what’s...
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Aravind Adiga–THE WHITE TIGER
Note: This novel was WINNER of the Man Booker Prize in 2008. “Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many…A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9...
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La Vie en Rose–(DVD), the story of Edith Piaf
Exhausting! Don’t plan to see this film and then go out for a lively night on the town. You will be so spent after the one hundred forty-one minutes of this gut-wrenching film that when the lights come...
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Ioanna Karystiani–SWELL
Note: This novel was WINNER of the National Award for Best Greek Novel of 2007. “An Avgoustis does not die on dry land, and [Mitsos Avgoustis], in particular, would never take part in that old age...
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