This Week's Acquisitions

  • Caryl Ferey, Mapuche, trans. Steven Randall (Europa, 2013).  Detective novel set amidst Argentinian political corruption.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Three Women in a Mirror, trans. Alison Anderson (Europa, 2013).  Triple-plot historical novel tracking women's painful, sometimes tragic search for identity in the sixteenth, early twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.  (Lift Bridge)
  • Michael Bentley, Moderizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism, 1870-1970 (Cambridge, 2005).  Emergence of post-"Whig" history in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century England.  (Amazon [secondhand])