Birgitta Hjalmarson
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Artful Players: Artistic Life in Early San Francisco
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In A Woman of an Uncertain Age, a man talks about pleasure for pleasure's sake. Naina, the protagonist, luxuriates in his words, “lush and plush," and "the curving cadences of his voice.” This is also how Priya Malhotra writes. With a poet’s sense of ...more | |
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In her novel, Kristanthi’s War, Ida Egli takes us to Greece during WWII, through the military junta years and the 1980s, when Krisanthi looks back on her life, her memory flawed, “a postcard lost in the mail.” The horror of war is always near. Images ...more | |
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"Birgitta Hjalmarson’s breakout novel, Fylgia, set during World War I in rural Sweden—when the deprivations of war and the challenges of modernity were pressuring all Swedes—focuses on a common woman of good character and family who cannot resist work"
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