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Re: Well, there was only one serious guess. Larry Send a noteboard - 26/02/2011 12:55:04 PM
Jack London, The Sea-Wolf.

Makes sense - adventure story, 19th century (or is that early 20th already?).


1903-1904 (originally serialized). Reminds me positively of Conrad's Lord Jim.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.

So then I haven't read it yet, after all. I should, though. Are those the opening lines? Perhaps I've seen them quoted somewhere, or something...


Yes, those are the opening lines.

New author. Laila Lalami, Secret Son, released in 2009. No way I could handle reading Arabic letters; my vision finds it hard enough to focus on Latin letters enough these days :P

Yeah, I'll review the book when I'm done and see which of the twelve authors in it I am most inclined to recommend, as I'd only recommend the collection itself to those who have at least some understanding of Arabic, so that they don't have to rely entirely on the translation. Currently reading the Mahfouz story, actually.

I believe I've heard someone, quite possibly you, mention Lalami before, but otherwise I'm not familiar with her. But then, I'm not really familiar with any Arabic authors of the past decade or two - my classes in university focused more on the generations before that.


I think I mentioned it the other day when I said I finally found a book from a native of a country I had yet to read a representative work. I ran across her name when she wrote an op-ed piece on the riots in Morocco.
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie

Je suis méchant.
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Quotes from books I'm currently reading Larry - 26/02/2011 12:09:23 PM 746 Views
The Rosenberg one seems familiar somehow. Legolas - 26/02/2011 12:38:53 PM 573 Views
None of your guesses are correct Larry - 26/02/2011 12:42:30 PM 500 Views
Well, there was only one serious guess. Legolas - 26/02/2011 12:50:27 PM 566 Views
Re: Well, there was only one serious guess. Larry - 26/02/2011 12:55:04 PM 538 Views
I know the third one Michael - 28/02/2011 08:32:57 AM 565 Views
The German doesn't give you any idea of the second? Larry - 28/02/2011 11:55:29 PM 486 Views
Sadly, no. Languages are not my strong point. I can manage three. Michael - 01/03/2011 08:33:31 AM 532 Views
Four, you understand four. Larry - 02/03/2011 11:34:57 PM 478 Views
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