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		<title>The Hired Man, by Aminatta Forna</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fiction set in the Balkans has a special attraction for me. The region is where West meets East &#8212; that certainly carries cultural interest but all too often during the last 1,000 years it has also meant devastating conflict, even genocide. Ivo Andrić&#8217;s The Bridge on the Drina, published in 1945 and the reason he [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7469&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KfC&#8217;s 2013 Project:  Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Atwood is undoubtedly one of Canada&#8217;s best known and most prolific authors. The third volume in her Oryx and Crake trilogy, Maddaddam, is due for publication later this year &#8212; it will be novel number fourteen on her resume, published forty-four years after The Edible Woman marked her introduction as a novelist in 1969. [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7459&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life after Life, by Kate Atkinson</title>
		<link>http://kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/life-after-life-by-kate-atkinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Time isn&#8217;t circular,&#8217; she said to Dr Kellet. &#8216;It&#8217;s like a &#8230; palimpsest.&#8217; &#8216;Oh dear,&#8217; he said. &#8216;That sounds vexing.&#8217; &#8216;And memories are sometimes in the future.&#8217; While that quote comes from late in the novel, it is a concise summary of the approach to time that is the most distinctive feature of author Kate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7453&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hungry Ghosts, by Shyam Selvadurai</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 21:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;hungry ghost&#8221; that supplies the title for Shyam Selvadurai&#8217;s new novel is the peréthaya, a creature that appears in a number of Buddhist and Sri Lankan myths. Its presence is over-arching in the novel with versions affecting all three generations represented in the story so it is worth quoting the author&#8217;s introduction, as drawn [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7441&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Go To Bed At Noon, by Gerard Woodward</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll Go To Bed At Noon is volume two of Gerard Woodward&#8217;s trilogy chronicling the life of the Jones family. It is very much a continuation of the first volume, August, so a brief reminder of my thoughts about that novel seems in order. For the most part, Aldous and Colette Jones (and their children) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7432&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mount Pleasant, by Don Gillmor</title>
		<link>http://kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/mount-pleasant-by-don-gillmor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are just a few of the reasons why I approached Mount Pleasant with some anticipation: &#8211; I have an acknowledged affinity for &#8220;city&#8221; novels, fiction set in neighborhoods of the world&#8217;s memorable cities where the urban environment is every bit as important to the book as its characters or plot. Teju Cole&#8217;s Open City [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7406&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Satantango, by László Krasznahorkai</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translated by George Szirtes Satantango is a novel of 274 pages, told in 12 chapters, a total of 12 paragraphs, each featuring a number of narrators. The experience of reading it is as much one of engaging in the author&#8217;s approach to structure and voice as it is experiencing the &#8220;story&#8221;. So let&#8217;s open with [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7390&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KfC&#8217;s 2013 Project:  Solomon Gursky Was Here, by Mordecai Richler</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 19:47:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Including Mordecai Richler in KfC&#8217;s 2013 project of re-reading Canadian authors who influenced me was a no-brainer decision from the start. Like any Canadian reader of my era, I have known his fiction well for decades (and interviewed the man himself more than once). It was equally impossible to not be aware of his controversial [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7375&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Dinner, by Herman Koch</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 22:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translated by Sam Garrett The Dinner is the first of Herman Koch&#8217;s seven novels that I have read (actually, as far as I can tell it is the only one that has been translated into English) but the Dutch author has already claimed a spot in a sparsely-populated room in KfC&#8217;s gallery of reading. I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7359&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Family Daughter, by Maile Meloy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For this reader, A Family Daughter is an unsual book, in an unusual way: my reaction to it is almost completely neutral. There are certainly books that enthuse me &#8212; Meloy&#8217;s own story collecton Both Ways Is The Only Way I Want It is a good example. An even greater number rank somewhere on the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kevinfromcanada.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6088923&#038;post=7343&#038;subd=kevinfromcanada&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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