Published by Faber & Faber, 2000, 592 pages. I hesitated about writing this review because you have to be a real fan of Sergio Leone films to enjoy this book, and I wasn’t sure how many of the readers of this blog are. But you know that I can be a bore about films I …
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Nick Barley, director of the Edinburgh international book festival, complained that British "parochial" reading habits were "something of an embarrassment". In response, Alison Flood, former news editor at The Bookseller, came up with a list of her 10 favourite novels in translation. However, it does look like Barley was wrong—according to The Guardian, translated fiction is …
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