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Book Review: A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus

June 27, 2012

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A Sense of Direction: Pilgrimage For the Restless and the Hopeful by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Memoir — Travel Riverhead Books, May 2012 Hardcover 352 pages “Of course you’re having a crisis. Look, everybody is having a crisis all of the time. You either feel like you’re too tied up and thus prevented from doing what you […]

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Volcano and When I Whistle by Shusaku Endo

May 28, 2012

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Volcano by Shusaku Endo Fiction Peter Owen Publishers, March 2012 Paperback 175 pages Synopsis from the back cover: One of Shusaku Endo’s finest works of fiction, Volcano is a powerful novel of ideas as well as a sensitive and moving depiction of the trials of old age, set in the central region of Japan. With […]

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