The Little Professor

This Week's Acquisitions

  • Peter Manseau, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter (Free Press, 2009).  An American Catholic translates the Yiddish memoirs of a Russian Jewish poet.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate (Picador, 2003).  Two former African missionaries deal with the memories of a horrible event.  (eBay)
  • Ian Townsend, The Devil's Eye (HarperCollins, 2008). Novel set in Australia during 1899, as Hurricane Mahina is about to touch down.  (Amazon [secondhand])
  • Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North, trans. Denys Johnson-Davies (NRYB, 2009).  An Oxford-educated man goes home to the Sudan, whereupon strange events begin to transpire.  (Amazon [secondhand])
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