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Concepcion—Conquest, Colonialism, and an Immigrant Family’s Fate: Albert Samaha

On By suroor alikhanIn Autobiography / Biography / Memoir / Autofiction, Current Affairs / Politics / Society / History, Non-FictionLeave a comment

Published by Riverhead Books / Centre Point Pub, 2021, 384 pages. Published in the US as Concepcion: An Immigrant Family's Fortunes. “Our stories guide and protect us. Without their lessons, warnings, and triumphs to root us to the past, we float aimlessly, taken by whatever opportunistic forces are quickest to grab, mold, and exploit.” Albert …

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Gun Island: Amitav Ghosh

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Published by Penguin Hamish Hachette / John Murray, 2019, 320 pages.Review by Imran Ali Khan Amitav Ghosh’s new book, Gun Island (Penguin, Random House), has come to us three years since his last book, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable, where Ghosh contemplates the dangers of climate change, “At exactly the time when …

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