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Else Dybdahl lives with her daughter and granddaughter in a house without men, having built a life for them all that withstands the village's whispers; but the return of a figure from her past forces her to confront a truth that she has kept buried for thirty years.
In 1974 when Else, then fifteen, lives with her mother and father in a house she is desperate to escape from. Else's father makes a meagre living as a shrimper and spends much of his time holed up in the boat shed drinking moonshine, while her mother seeks solace in prayer. Else's life is forever changed when a circus arrives in the village, bringing with it tales from afar and promises of exotic escape. It leaves the reader with a riddle that tantalises until the final pages of this quietly gripping, atmospheric debut.
Set in the harsh but beautiful landscape of Norway's southern coast, The Strong Man is a haunting story about yearning for a life beyond the one prescribed by the circumstances of birth. The bonds of love between mothers and daughters give them strength to make heroic sacrifices, to survive heartbreak and judgement and to allow the human spirit to endure. With echoes of The Shipping News, this prize worthy novel combines mystery and revelation with a domestic drama of deep and lasting resonance.
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THE TRADER OF SAIGON is an excellent debut literary fiction, full of suspense, and depicting Vietnam from a rather original angle.
In Vietnam in the early 1980s, the legacy of the American War still weighs heavily and life under the Hanoi regime is corrupted and precarious. Alexander, a US soldier, earns his living procuring young women – as prostitutes, wives, mistresses and maids – for wealthy men. For too long, Alexander has tricked himself into thinking that he is helping these girls. Now, though, he is waking up: he knows he is manipulative, and far too good at his job. It is time to become something better.
There comes a last, fateful job. Phuc, a Vietnamese businessman, driven to despair by debt, loses his daughter in a backroom gambling den, to the implacable racketeer Cheung Hu. Seeing no other way out, Phuc contrives to procure a girl to take his daughter's place in the trade. The role of procurer falls to Alexander; the role of victim to Hanh, a destitute toilet attendant who lost her father to the very war that brought Alexander to Vietnam.
THE TRADER OF SAIGON is a dark, brooding thriller; a story of sex, debt and duty, in which a man trapped in an abyss of his own making must make a life-defining choice: stay true to the man he has become, or take one final grasp at becoming human once again. A redemption fable of sorts, hurtling towards a terrible denouement.
Lucy Cruickshanks is 27 years old. She holds an undergraduate degree in Politics and Philosophy from the University of Warwick and an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, having passed with Distinction. She has held various copywriting positions and now works as a Bid Writer for a Fortune 250 company. She has travelled widely in Vietnam and Asia.
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Ksiązka Cilli Naumann RUNNING WITH OARS (Springa med åror), jako jedna z sześciu w kategorii fiction, została dziś nominowana do najbardziej prestiżowej szwedzkiej nagrody literackiej Augustpriset.
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Hilary Mantel, bestsellerowa brytyjska pisarka, po raz drugi została laureatką prestiżowej nagrody Bookera! Obydwie nagrodzone książki (ta z 2009 roku, jak i obecna) stanowią część trylogii poświęconej Thomasowi Cromwellowi.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Rownie, the youngest in Graba the witchworker's household of stray children, escapes and goes looking for his missing brother. Along the way he falls in with a troupe of theatrical goblins and learns the secret origins of masks. Now Graba's birds are hunting him in the Southside of Zombay, the Lord Mayor's guards are searching for him in Northside, and the River between them is getting angry. The city needs saving—and only the goblins know how.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
William Alexander studied theater and folklore at Oberlin College and English at the University of Vermont. He currently lives, writes, and teaches in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His short stories have been published in many magazines and anthologies, including Weird Tales, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, Interfictions 2, and Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2008.
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