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Crooked Plow

by Yelena Furman

Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel "Crooked Plow" is a work of magical realism in which sisters fight to survive and improve conditions on the land they love. As children in Brazil, Bibiana and Belonísia discover their grandmother’s... Read More

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Kidnapped

by Yelena Furman

In Ludmilla Petrushevskaya’s novel "Kidnapped", two boys are switched at birth, leading to unexpected consequences. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Soviet Union’s collapse. Alina, a poor university student who has been... Read More

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Hiding in Plain Sight

by Yelena Furman

Dutch journalist Pieter van Os’s "Hiding in Plain Sight" is the biography of Mala Rivka Kizel, the only person in her Orthodox Jewish family to survive the Holocaust, which she did by passing as a gentile in Poland and Germany. Born in... Read More

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