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Situated more than one hundred miles off Italy’s southern coast, the rocky island of Lampedusa has hit world headlines in recent years as the first port of call for hundreds of thousands of African and Middle Eastern refugees fleeing civil war and terrorism and hoping to make a new life in Europe. Dr. Pietro Bartolo, who runs the lone medical clinic on the island, has been caring for many of …
For readers of Colm Toíbín, a moving portrait of a marriage in crisis and a couple’s search for salvation. Sixteen years on from his last novel, Bernard MacLaverty reminds us why he is regarded as one of the greatest living Irish writers. A retired couple, Gerry and Stella Gilmore, fly from their home in Scotland to Amsterdam for a long weekend―a holiday to refresh the senses, to do so…
Both revolution and romance are at the heart of Return of the Spirit (first published in Arabic in 1933). The story of a young, patriotic artist and his extended family in 1918-1919 Egypt, ending with events surrounding the 1919 revolution (for al-Hakim, a literal awakening of the Egyptian spirit), the novel's strong expression of Egyptian nationalist solidarity has particular resonance now. Ad…
The Polish Boxer Eduardo Halfon Bellevue Literary Press (Oct 1, 2012) Softcover $14.95 (188pp) 978-1-934137-53-6 “69752. That was his phone number … he had it tattooed there, on his left forearm, so he wouldn’t forget it. That’s what my grandfather told me. And that’s what I grew up believing. In the 1970s, telephone numbers in Guatemala were five digits long.” The grand…