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Advance Review Copy, Fiction, History, Literary Awards, Translation

The Pope’s Daughter by Dario Fo (Antony Shugaar, translator)

Title:  The Pope’s Daughter Author:  Dario Fo Translator:  Antony Shugaar Publisher:  Europa Editions, New York (2015) ISBN:  978 1 60945 274 2 Dario Fo – playwright, comedian, Nobel Laureate  –  is an admirer of the 16th century form of street theater known as commedia dell’arte. These roving theatrical troupes employed masks, improvisation, wordplay and slapstick comedy to entertain the masses. The actors and actresses performed broad … Continue reading The Pope’s Daughter by Dario Fo (Antony Shugaar, translator)

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Audio, Biography, Memoir, Non-Fiction

Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (audiobook)

If there’s one thing you walk away with after reading Antonia Fraser’s memoir Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter, it’s that she and her second husband Harold Pinter were deeply in love.  Reading a memoir that doesn’t focus exclusively on tribulations its author has overcome is refreshing.  Remarkable, even.  Fraser has chosen to share what appears to be the happiest period of her … Continue reading Must You Go, My Life with Harold Pinter by Antonia Fraser (audiobook)

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Advance Review Copy, Fiction, History, Translation

The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller (translated from the original German by Philip Boehm)

The Hunger Angel was my introduction to the work of Herta Müller.  First published in 2009, the same year that she received the Nobel Prize, it is (like much of her work) deeply political.  Romania was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1958.   Müller’s novel deals with the time immediately following WWII when, as she explains in the book’s afterward: “In January … Continue reading The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller (translated from the original German by Philip Boehm)

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