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What I have loved about this year's Carnegie Shortlist is the range of stories and voices. Bone Talk blew me away by taking me deep into the history of the Philipines right before the American boot came down on its people. The pre-colonial lives of the Bontok crash headlong, through the voice of young Samran who is poised on the brink of a major rite of passage into manhood, into the colonial presence of American troops. You feel the ancient rhythms of the Bontok way of life, the mythologies, re
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