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Adrift within the South, by Xiao Hai, translated from the Chinese language by Tony Hao (Granta). At fifteen, the author Xiao Hai left...
Briefly Famous Guide Opinions | The New Yorker
The Rolling Stones, by Bob Spitz (Penguin). It began in 1961: “Two boys meet at a prepare station one morning, in a suburb...
Briefly Famous Guide Evaluations | The New Yorker
Paradiso 17, by Hannah Lillith Assadi (Knopf). This novel of exile and reminiscence chronicles the lifetime of Sufien, a Palestinian man displaced as...
Harriet Clark’s Début Is a New Sort of Coming-of-Age Novel
Now a 3rd joins their firm, Harriet Clark’s excellent first novel, “The Hill” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). It's narrated by Suzanna, who lives...
Briefly Famous E book Critiques | The New Yorker
Underlake, by Erin L. McCoy (Doubleday). This surreal début novel riffs on the concept of drowned cities: cities seized by the federal government...