Blogs in December 2020

Zigzag Through the Bitter-Orange Trees 10th December 2020

Zigzag through the Bitter Orange Trees was published in Greece in 2000, where it was acclaimed as the best novel of the decade and became the first novel to win both the Greek State Prize for Literature and the...

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Crick Crack, Monkey 10th December 2020

Tee is being made socially acceptable by her Aunt Beatrice, so that she can cope with the caste system of Trinidad.

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Weep Not, Refugee 10th December 2020

The book is a novel on the problems of refugees from Burundi. Kigeme, a Burundian secondary school girl, must flee to Wirodi for her safety, due to the outbreak of the Hutu- Tutsi war in Burundi. On her way...

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The Madwoman of Serrano 10th December 2020

TRANSLATED BY JETHRO SOUTAR The first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition,...

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Mr Loverman 9th December 2020

Barrington Jedidiah Walker is seventy-four and leads a double life. Born and bred in Antigua, he’s lived in Hackney since the sixties. A flamboyant, wise-cracking local character with a dapper taste in retro suits and a fondness for quoting...

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