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  • Birds of Passage

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    Serier Bog 31 - Untapped
    Reading fragments of his ancestor’s journal Lo Yun Shan gives Australian-born Chinese man Seamus O’Young an odd sensation: familiarity. Their lives are quite different—Shan left China for the goldfields in the mid-19th century—but something links them. As Seamus seeks to understand what it is, and what it means, his mind begins to unravel in Brian Castro’s astonishing debut.‘Full of subtle colours ... Læs mere

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  • The Conservationist

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  • July's People

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  • King of the Cloud Forests

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  • Pyre

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  • Ancestor Stones

    Abie follows the arc of a letter from London back to Africa to a coffee plantation that now could be hers if she wants it. Standing among the ruined groves she strains to hear the sound of the past, but the layers of years are too many. Thus begins the gathering of her family's history through the tales of her aunts - four women born to four different wives of a wealthy plantation owner, her ... Læs mere

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  • Mother to Mother

    Serier Bog 13 - Bluestreak
    Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own ... Læs mere

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  • The Lily Hand

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  • Three Japanese Short Stories

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