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Posts Tagged ‘canadian authors’

Here is where we meet - Berger, Galloway, Englander and Chabon

Monday, January 12th, 2009

The first story in John Berger’s  Here is Where We Meet,  is set in Lisbon. The narrator, John, by chance meets his mother while walking the streets of the city. There are two peculiar things about this meeting - the first is that his mother has been dead for fifteen years, and the second is that [...]

The Cellist of Sarajevo

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

The Cellist of Sarajevo is Canadian novelist Steven Galloway’s third novel, but only the first to be published in the UK & Ireland. I picked up the novel enthusiastically (it’s beautifully put together, from the elegant cover through to the paging and paper-weight) but also with the slight apprehension that always accompanies a novel that [...]