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Book World Raves (3)
Book World Raves (3)
The Warlord's Son, by Dan Fesperman (Knopf). Dan Fesperman covered the war in Afghanistan for the Baltimore Sun, and out of that experience he has brought forth this terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass. -- PA
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?, by Maryse Condé, translated from the French by Richard Philcox (Atria). The heroine is a black-skinned beauty with a pulsing scar that she keeps hidden beneath a choker or a scarf. Condé's opulent imagination, sublime prose and magical narratives light up Africa's past. -- Donna Bailey Nurse
With, by Donald Harington (Toby). Beautiful, blonde Robin Kerr is 7 1/2 when the novel opens. A recluse stalks and snatches her, installing her in a wonderland where she will begin her metamorphosis from spoiled city girl to nature goddess. As whimsical as a paper-doll show. -- Steven Moore
You Remind Me of Me, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine). Chaon chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. . . . an apparently claustrophobic novel that feels paradoxically large, generous and, ultimately, quite moving. -- Tom Perrotta
The Warlord's Son, by Dan Fesperman (Knopf). Dan Fesperman covered the war in Afghanistan for the Baltimore Sun, and out of that experience he has brought forth this terrific novel of intrigue, duplicity and death in the shadow of the Khyber Pass. -- PA
Who Slashed Celanire's Throat?, by Maryse Condé, translated from the French by Richard Philcox (Atria). The heroine is a black-skinned beauty with a pulsing scar that she keeps hidden beneath a choker or a scarf. Condé's opulent imagination, sublime prose and magical narratives light up Africa's past. -- Donna Bailey Nurse
With, by Donald Harington (Toby). Beautiful, blonde Robin Kerr is 7 1/2 when the novel opens. A recluse stalks and snatches her, installing her in a wonderland where she will begin her metamorphosis from spoiled city girl to nature goddess. As whimsical as a paper-doll show. -- Steven Moore
You Remind Me of Me, by Dan Chaon (Ballantine). Chaon chronicles the peculiar convergence of Nora's two sons, the one she raised and the one she gave up for adoption. . . . an apparently claustrophobic novel that feels paradoxically large, generous and, ultimately, quite moving. -- Tom Perrotta