John Boyne, The Absolutist
A fresh look at the fog of war — and loveWar is John Boyne’s topic; his best-known novel is the concentration camp soul-crusher The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. In his latest, The Absolutist, the...
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The world's greatest escapee tells his own storyPapillon, Henri Charrière’s bestselling memoir of his incarceration and escape from the French penal colony of Devil’s Island, has seen many iterations:...
View ArticleLouise Erdrich, The Round House
A wrenching look at the grey areas of justice, sex, family and ethnic identity.Returning to the some of the same characters and geographies as in her 2008 novel The Plague of Doves, Louise Erdrich’s...
View ArticleLynn Coady, The Antagonist
A funny, subtle, and honest long dark night of the soul, with a Canadian accent. Gordon Rankin, aka Rank, the protagonist of Lynn Coady’s The Antagonist, has the body of a comic book villain. His huge,...
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