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Aidan Meehan “The Treasury of Celtic Knots”

London : Thames & Hudson, 2005 Check from e-catalogue ESTER. Ursula Aavasalu The Department of Literature…

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Lucinda Riley “The Seven Sisters: Maia’s Story”

London: Pan Books, 2018 Check from e-catalogue ESTER. Check from e-library OverDrive. Jaanika Tappo Department of Literature…

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Han Kang “The Vegetarian”

Han Kang is a South Korean writer who was awarded the Man Booker Prize for…

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Sayaka Murata “Convenience Store Woman”

Keiko, a 36-year-old woman, has been working in a convenience store for eighteen years. It…

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Sue Monk Kidd “The Invention of Wings”

I stumbled upon Sue Monk Kidd’s „The Invention of Wings“ while looking for „The Secret…

Posted in Autobiography, Memoir Children Cultural Fiction Guatemala Maya South America War

Rigoberta Menchú & Dante Liano „The Girl From Chimel: Tales From a Mayan Village“

Have you ever looked at the small coloured stones in the river magnified through the…

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“Vienna Tales”

Vienna is situated in the heart of Europe. If I think about Vienna, there are…

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Mary Lynn Bracht “White Chrysanthemum”

“Some historians believe fifty thousand to two hundred thousand Korean women and girls were stolen,…

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Tan Twan Eng “The Garden of Evening Mists”

“From what you’ve been telling me, it’s just about aesthetics, isn’t it? The garden I…

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Mo Yan “Big Breasts and Wide Hips”

This book is a winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. Mo Yan is most…