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Article: Matalon Ronit. The One Facing Us. Marsha Weinstein, tr. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... being an outsider, and this is mirrored in the lives of all of the members of the family, whether in Egypt, Israel, or New York. The family photos, some real, some fictive, add yet another point of view to the novel. Importantly, the voice analyzing ...

Article: Victor Pelevin. A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... electric hand dryers! We laugh through the tears, if we can, but it is clear that the citizen in the street is lost. It is that sense of loss that Pelevin presents, better than any serious writer in Russia today. Philippe D. Radley New York

Article: Patrick Kavanagh. Gaff Topsails. New York. Viking. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...What novel covers a day in the lives of an assortment of characters who are heavily influenced by Ireland and the Catholic Church and is told in obtuse, highly poetic language? No, it is not Ulysses, though the first-time novelist Patrick Kavanagh translated Ulysses into Mandarin, and its influence

Article: Difficult Daughters. London/New York. Faber & ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Difficult Daughters is a painstakingly written work that spans the genres of fiction and history and falters in both. The narrator, in time present, sets out to piece together time past, especially the reconstruction of her mother's life. The narrator's mother was the eldest of a large joint

Article: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. New York. Knopf. 1997. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Published half a century after the end of Japan's fifteen-year war that began with the seizure of Manchuria in 1931, the voluminous narrative (1,156 pages in three volumes in Japanese) The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle probes the meaning of time, memory, and self-actualization in the "high-tech" age.

Article: Ying Chen. Ingratitude. Carol Volk, tr. New York. ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     623 words ...Ying Chen, a Chinese expatriate who lives in Canada and writes in French, published L'ingratitude, her third novel, in 1995. The first- person narrative opens as Yan-Zi lies dying after an attempted suicide. All her thoughts and memories are compressed between her hospitalization and her flight

Article: William H. Gass. Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas. New ...
World Literature Today;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Cartesian Sonata, William Gass's tenth book and fifth work of fiction, collects four novellas written over the last thirty years; all are set in the Midwest. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, Gass, now in his early seventies, a longtime philosophy professor, is currently director of Washington