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Written by Matt Kanner
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Friday, 03 August 2007 |
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2007, Alfred A. Knopf
339 pages
Kaddish Poznan makes a living by erasing evidence
of the past. The son of a Jewish prostitute raised at a time and place
when the Jewish community was attempting to eradicate its memory of his
mother’s profession, he is clandestinely hired to sneak into a derelict
cemetery and chip names off of headstones with a chisel. The headstones
bare the names of the pimps and prostitutes whose services were once in
high demand in Argentina, but their grown children want to lead
respectable lives, untainted by the stigma of their parents’ aberrant
trade. So they pay Kaddish, the one son-of-a-whore not ashamed of his
heritage, to eliminate the only physical piece of evidence linking them
to their relatives.
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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
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by Michael Ondaatje
Alfred A Knopf
276 pages, $25
The title of Michael Ondaatje’s latest
novel, “Divisadero,” comes from the Spanish word for “division,” or “to
gaze at something from a distance.” The book tells the story of how a
number of events, especially an incident of great violence, separate
and scatter the lives of three individuals who grew up together, and
how memories of their common pas haunt and deform their divided lives.
As the principal narrator, Anna, says, “It is the hunger, what we do
not have, that holds us together.”
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Written by Liberty Hardy
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007 |
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by Amanda Eyre Ward
Random House
256 pages
Nadine Morgan has been running her whole life.
Ever since her mother died of cancer when Nadine was six, she has been
afraid of being stuck in one place, afraid of getting close to anyone.
She left Cape Cod and her father right after she graduated high school
and never looked back.
Traveling the world as a journalist, Nadine has always sought danger,
her lack of fear getting her the story before anyone else. But danger
caught up with her.
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Written by Liberty Hardy
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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Austin Grossman
Pantheon, 280 pages
So, you’re about to start a new book
about superheroes by an author who is a doctoral candidate in English
specializing in Romantic and Victorian literature. Sounds about as
promising as if Danielle Steel were to pen the new Hulk film. But the
cover (designed by book jacket master Chip Kidd) is bright and colorful
and shiny, almost lickable, making it super appealing to geeks and
crows. It’s like they’ve been telling us for years—hardly any people
end up working in the field in which they got their degree anymore.
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Written by Harvey Shepard
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
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by Jerome Groopman, M.D.
Houghton Mifflin Company
307 pages, $26
Even excluding diet and other self-help
publications, books by doctors have become so common that they
practically form a genre of their own. Fortunately, a surprising number
of doctors are excellent, engrossing writers. One of the best
physician-writers, Jerome Groopman, a staff writer for The New Yorker
magazine, has a brand new book.
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