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Every year, the booksellers at Powell’s submit their Top Fives: their five favorite books that were released in 2023. It’s a list that, when put together, shows just how varied and interesting the book tastes of Powell’s booksellers are. I highly recommend digging into the recommendations — we would never lead you astray — but today...
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Painter Of Battles
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Arturo Perez Reverte
Rowena
, June 10, 2008
Arturo Perez-Reverte has garnered acclaim for his previous novels such as The Seville Communion, The Queen of the South, and the Captain Alatriste historical series. Now, with The Painter of Battles, he has witten a novel which involves the reader in a story of war, love and revenge, and also in art and history. Andre Faulques was a combat photographer, winner of awards for his shots of wars from Africa to Bosnia. Then he quit, moved to a tower on the Spanish coast, and began to paint a mural covering centuries of warfare. Now a man enters his life,a subject of one of his photos of Bosnia, and announces he is going to kill Faulques at some point. As they get to know each other they talk of wars, of the painting, of the man's dead wife and son. But Faulques thinks often of the love of his life, who went with him into the wars, who took her own pictures. This is a stunning, beautifully written book, to be reread.
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Night Following
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Morag Joss
Rowena
, March 22, 2008
A homeless woman walks the streets, remembering. A spill on the seat of her husband's car, a search for a tissue, and she finds a condom wrapper.Driving home she hits and kills a bicycling woman, picks up the woman's scattered papers and drives away. The story unfolds.The bereft husband, who knows little about his wife's writing until he begins to read the novel she has written. the parallel story of the killer who becomes another person. Morag Joss, author of Puccini's Ghost and other gripping novels, has done it again.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
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Jeannette Walls
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, July 03, 2007
I can't rate this honestly. First, I think Jeannette Wells is an excellent writer, very clear eyed. But having grown up poor, though not quite in her circumstances, I think this story appeals to generations who have never known poverty. They look at a world they only know at a distance, where they can close the book and look back on lives untouched by the reality of Well's story. I admire her for a survivor, but thisz is a world I know too well.
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