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In his novel Dreams of My Russian Summers, the author told lively, fascinating tales of his hero's Siberian grandmother, then wavered into lifeless self-absorption in a present-day section set in France. His quirky, likable new novel returns to rural Siberia in the 1970s, where three clueless teenage...
Clark writes novels that could be movies in which Henry Fonda and Robert Mitchum steal scenes from each other. His 1997 debut, In the Deep Midwinter, established him as a sensitive and forgiving spinner of sepia-colored tales that find the tenderness in men. His new book is more of...
That scene captures some of Danticat's essence. Her pleasant serenity in person is really evidence of her inner confidence, her ability to stay calm and focused despite whatever is around her. The Farming of Bones recounts tales of horror, but it never turns purple, never spins wildly into the...
Verghese writes with such searching lucidity and is so attentive and engaging a figure that he could hold us just by describing his drives around town. At times he does just that, interspersing accounts of Wimbledon games from 1975 with tales of his medical rounds and glimpses of his marital...
Amid all the brouhaha surrounding the explosion of writing in English from the Indian subcontinent--the million-dollar advances won by Vikram Seth and Salman Rushdie, the 36 languages into which Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things has been translated--it's easy to feel that the all...