2007
Half of a Yellow Sun
By Chimamanda Ngoz Adichie
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Published 15-Jan-2007
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In 1960s Nigeria, a country blighted by civil war, three lives intersect.
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Arlington Park
By Rachel Cusk
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Published 03-May-2007
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Juliet is enraged at the victory of men over women in family life. Amanda is warding off thoughts of death with obsessive housework. Solly is confronting her own buried femininity in the person of her Italian lodger. This novel talks about the domestic lives, private thoughts and fears of a group of women.
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Inheritance of Loss
By Kiran Desai
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Published 07-Jun-2007
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In foothills of Himalayas sits a house - home to three people and a dog. There is retired judge dreaming of colonial yesterdays; his orphaned granddaughter Sai who has fallen for her tutor; the cook, whose son writes untruthful letters; and judge's dog. This book shows how new world is clashing with old, and future offers both hope and betrayal.
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Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
By Xiaolu Guo
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Published 03-Jan-2008
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Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang arrives in London to spend a year learning English. Struggling to find her way in the city, and through the puzzles of tense, verb and adverb; she falls for an older Englishman and begins to realise that the landscape of love is an even trickier terrain...
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Digging to America
By Anne Tyler
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Published 19-Apr-2007
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A novel that talks about belonging and otherness, about insiders and outsiders, pride and prejudice, young love and unexpected old love, families and the impossibility of ever getting it right, about striving for connection and goodness against all the odds.
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