Mao’s Last Dancer
Author: Li Cunxin
The story of Li Cunxin, plucked aged 11 from a poor, remote Chinese village to train as a ballet dancer at the madam Mao’s Beijing Academy…..Read More
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This brilliant novel with universal resonance, set during the 1990s Siege of Sarajevo, tells the story of three people trying to survive in a city rife with the extreme fear… Continue Reading Posted in: Fiction, History, Violoncellists
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InterWorld
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Like most gentiles in Nazi-occupied Paris, architect Lucien Bernard has little empathy for the Jews. So when a wealthy industrialist offers him a large sum of money to devise secret… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Historical Fiction, Jews
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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