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Parrish Lantern's Casebook
Parrish Lantern's Casebook rated it 12 years ago
The book opens with a rather dour new officer arriving by boat on his first posting abroad. The officer, Chrysostome, doesn’t attempt to fit in with his fellow officers and they, in turn, despise his puritan upbringing, not only is he blatantly religious to a fundamental degree, but he refuses the u...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 12 years ago
0099512998 (ISBN13: 9780099512998)Withdrawn from Tower Hamlets LibraryTranslated by Margaret Jull CostaTranslator's NoteThe Game of GoosePrologue (The author speaks of his language, euskera)A collage of stories, town gossip, diary excerpts and literary theory melded together that I have hauled aroun...
Chrissie's Books
Chrissie's Books rated it 14 years ago
What do you learn from this book? You learn about the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939, about Guernica, about what drives those in Basque movement for independence and most of all about how what happens in history during a set time here 1936-1939 continues to change people and evets for years to come. Th...
Second Bookses
Second Bookses rated it 15 years ago
The death of my computer leaves me with a lot of reading time lately, and a recent library find was The Accordionist's Son by Bernardo Axtaga, a novel translated twice, first from Basque to Spanish, then from Spanish to English.::: Plot :::The Accordionist's Son is a novel-within-a-novel. When the b...
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