So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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This is a haunting look 1979 China starting with the execution of a Chinese counterrevolutionary in the provincial town of Muddy River. The writing and storytelling is so evocative that one feels like one is there.
Publisher's Weekly called it magnificent and it was but also "jaw-droppingly grim," which it was too. But at the same time so true.
This is the most haunting, amazing book I read this year. It's a major departure from Donoghue's other work, not that I didn't love Slammekin. I can't wait to see what she writes next.
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The Vagrants by Yiyun Li
Diane Lederman, January 1, 2012
This is a haunting look 1979 China starting with the execution of a Chinese counterrevolutionary in the provincial town of Muddy River. The writing and storytelling is so evocative that one feels like one is there.Publisher's Weekly called it magnificent and it was but also "jaw-droppingly grim," which it was too. But at the same time so true.
Room by Emma Donoghue
Diane Lederman, January 1, 2011
This is the most haunting, amazing book I read this year. It's a major departure from Donoghue's other work, not that I didn't love Slammekin. I can't wait to see what she writes next.The Master by Colm Toibin
Diane Lederman, January 3, 2010
This was perfect book, well imagined, rich, fascinating.