📚 Finished two great books this month:

📕 Fathers & Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev - explores the generational clash between fathers and their radical sons during a time of great social change in Russia.

📕 The Nine (2021) by Gwen Strauss - follows the escape of 9 women, resistance fighters, out of Nazi Germany

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Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time

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Another Country

Finished reading this 1962 novel by James Baldwin and it has found a place among my favorite titles of all time - including Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth, The Blood of Others and The Mandarins, both by Simone de Beauvoir and The Children of Violence Series by Doris Lessing ... The thread that I find binds these works is a collection of characters who are fully realized by the authors and are making decisions amid the turmoil of their given times and environment, based on their individual traits, rather than simply as a vehicle for a story the writer wants to tell.
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The Torrents of Spring

Just finished reading Torrents of Spring the 1872 novella by Ivan Turgenev. It is partly autobiographical, centering on a young Russian landowner who falls in love for the first time while visiting the German city of Frankfurt.

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📚 I just finished By the Sea - a novel by Nobel Prize winning author Abdulrazak Gurnah, first published in 2001. It is the Zanzibar born writer's sixth novel and was longlisted for the Booker Prize.

By the Sea is a complex tale narrated by two men who have immigrated to Britain. As they reveal their individual stories the reader sees how their lives have been deeply and tragically connected. Not an easy read , but for me well worth the effort. 📚

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📖 Tevye the Dairyman & Motl the Cantor's Son 📚

As a big fan of Fiddler on the Roof, I decided I should read the original Tevye stories. First published in 1894, Tevye 'tells' Aleichem the tales of his family, focusing on six of his seven daughters, Tzeitel, Chava, Hodel, Shprintze, Taybele, and Bielke. I was surprised by how different these tales proved to be from musical.
But the highlight here is the delightful adventures of the 'orphan' Motl in Aleichem's unfinished novel Motl and the Cantor's Son. These tales take us on the journey from poverty in the Shtetl, across Europe to the promise land of America. Motls' take on life is endearing and funny. I am amazed that these stories have never made it to film!

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📚 Just finished James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain ... Recently realized that I had never read anything by him and figured it was time to correct that! 📚

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📚 Books Books Books 📚

Just finished the 1994 novel "Paradise" by Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature.

The Zanzibar born author takes us into the world of colonial Africa - A coming of age story filled with fascinating characters of differing backgrounds, each with a mysterious past that, once revealed will lead the main character to a surprising decision ...

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📚 📚 Finished OE Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth - The Norwegian American author's novel on pioneer life in the Dakota Territory based on the experiences of his, and his wife's own families.
This book was absolutely dependent on the last few pages as to how I would feel about it ... For me, almost any other ending would have left me frustrated by the journey the story took. 📚📚

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