tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6570476.post-43849330745595087162008-07-18T06:58:00.000-07:002008-07-21T05:09:36.345-07:00What I Found at .. MPH Mid Valley<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/R9vCWaq3rhI/AAAAAAAACQM/csqtQUGiv-c/s1600-h/thingsfallapart-chinuaachebe.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/R9vCWaq3rhI/AAAAAAAACQM/csqtQUGiv-c/s200/thingsfallapart-chinuaachebe.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177945886964559378" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SH_odHX8RSI/AAAAAAAADhQ/5YqbwEmnRbs/s1600-h/the+law+of+dreams+-+peter+behrens.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SH_odHX8RSI/AAAAAAAADhQ/5YqbwEmnRbs/s200/the+law+of+dreams+-+peter+behrens.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224149679666382114" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIKiCXpbkWI/AAAAAAAADhw/OUcXM2rG8uE/s1600-h/the+brief+wondrous+life+of+oscar+wao+-+junot+diaz.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIKiCXpbkWI/AAAAAAAADhw/OUcXM2rG8uE/s200/the+brief+wondrous+life+of+oscar+wao+-+junot+diaz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224916679294423394" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SFqNHtt1arI/AAAAAAAADV8/M_LmTGzLf-4/s1600-h/if+today+be+sweet+-+thrity+umrigar.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SFqNHtt1arI/AAAAAAAADV8/M_LmTGzLf-4/s200/if+today+be+sweet+-+thrity+umrigar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5213634682305211058" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Novels</span><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Things Fall Apart</span> (1959) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Chinua Achebe</span><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Hakawati</span> (Picador, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rabih Alameddine</span><br />3. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Skylark Farm</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Antonia Arslan</span><br />4. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Law of Dreams</span> (Steerforth Press, 2006; Canongate, 2006) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Peter Behrens</span><br />5. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Lizard Cage</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Karen Connolly</span><br />6. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Eyrie</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Stevie Davies</span><br />7. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</span> (Faber and Faber, 2008/Riverhead Books, 2007) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Junot Díaz</span><br />8. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Being Emily</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Anne Donovan</span><br />9. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Blood Kin</span> (Atlantic, 2008; Atlantic, 2007) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ceridwen Dovey</span><br />10. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Sea of Poppies</span> (John Murray, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Amitav Ghosh</span><br />11. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Helpless</span> (Little, Brown, 2007; Abacus, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Barbara Gowdy</span><br />12. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">De Niro’s Game</span> () / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rawi Hage</span><br />13. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Sorry</span> (Harvill Secker, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gail Jones</span><br />14. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Dreams of Speaking</span> (Harvill Secker, 2006; Vintage, 2007) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Gail Jones</span><br />15. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Let It Be Morning</span></span> (trans. from the Hebrew by <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Miriam Shlesinger</span>) (Black Cat, 2006; Atlantic Books, 2007) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Sayed Kashua</span><br />16. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Day</span> (Jonathan Cape, 2007) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">A.L. Kennedy</span><br />17. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Lost Dog</span> (first published in Australia by Allen and Unwin in November 2007) (Chatto and Windus, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Michelle de Kretser</span><br />18. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The End of East</span> (Thomas Dunne Books, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Jen Sookfong Lee</span><br />19. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Beijing Coma</span> (trans. from the Chinese by <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Flora Drew</span>) (Chatto &amp; Windus, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Ma Jian</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIR8DiZ5QzI/AAAAAAAADi4/5yBqSx50iik/s1600-h/beijing+coma+-+ma+jian.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIR8DiZ5QzI/AAAAAAAADi4/5yBqSx50iik/s200/beijing+coma+-+ma+jian.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225437867873485618" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIR3k4MdR_I/AAAAAAAADiw/Ti8VKk4BcrQ/s1600-h/the+end+of+east+-+jen+sookfong+lee.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIR3k4MdR_I/AAAAAAAADiw/Ti8VKk4BcrQ/s200/the+end+of+east+-+jen+sookfong+lee.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225432943100250098" border="0" /></a> 20. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Children of the Revolution</span> (Jonathan Cape, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Dinaw Mengestu</span><br />21. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Museum of Dr Moses</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joyce Carol Oates</span><br />22. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Gravedigger’s Daughter</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joyce Carol Oates</span><br />23. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Netherland</span> (Fourth Estate/Pantheon, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joseph O’Neill</span><br />24. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Friends of Meager Fortune</span> / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Adams Richards</span><br />25. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Evening Is the Whole Day</span> (4th Estate/HarperCollins, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Preeta Samarasan</span><br />26. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">More Than It Hurts You</span> (Dutton, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Darin Strauss</span><br />27. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Little Hut of Leaping Fishes</span> (Picador, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Chiew-Siah Tei</span><br />28. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Road Home</span> (Chatto &amp; Windus, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Rose Tremain</span><br />29. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Between Each Breath</span> (Jonathan Cape, 2007; Vintage, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Adam Thorpe</span><br />30. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">If Today Be Sweet</span> (Harper Perennial, 2008; first published in hardcover in 2007 by William Morrow) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Thrity Umrigar</span><br />31. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Breath</span> (Picador, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Tim Winton</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIL7FsGhoSI/AAAAAAAADh4/MJb0r8ryz8w/s1600-h/the+size+of+the+world+-+joan+silber.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_pSO5Oh1UJ1A/SIL7FsGhoSI/AAAAAAAADh4/MJb0r8ryz8w/s200/the+size+of+the+world+-+joan+silber.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225014592859644194" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Stories</span><br />1. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Say You’re One of Them</span> (Little, Brown, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Uwem Akpan</span><br />2. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The O. Henry Prize Stories 2008</span> </span>(Originally published in hardcover in the U.S. by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, in 2007) (Anchor Books/Random House, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Laura Furman</span> (ed.)<br />3. <span style="font-weight: bold;">No One Belongs Here More Than You</span> () / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Miranda July</span><br />4. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures</span> () / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Vincent Lam</span><br />5. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">The Complete Stories</span> (Vintage, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">David Malouf</span><br />6. <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Size of the World</span> (W.W. Norton, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Joan Silber</span><br />7. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Cheating at Canasta</span> (Viking, 2007; Penguin, 2008) / <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">William Trevor</span>Eric Forbeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00598094262684433573noreply@blogger.com