Dark Paradise Middle East and finds a solace in

and finds a solace in a motley family of wanderers all as disenfranchised as she

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Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife is a deceptive novel: it draws us close with promises of titillating confession and heart-warming intimacy only to send us on a conceptual scavenger hunt that probes the ethics of reading

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Dark Paradise Middle East and finds a solace inby Rosa Liksom Translated by David McDuff Publication Date: 05 01 2007 ISBN: 9781564784377 A man murders a grocer over fifteen cents but in the sharp, icy prose and detached tone that defines this collection, his crime seems neither sensational nor entirely reprehensible. Rosa Liksom populates a world of snow covered landscapes, antiseptic apartments, fish factories, and lumber camps with the obsessive, the violent, and the unhinged. A woman refuses