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Under the watchful eye of The Company, three characters - Grayson, Morse and Chen - shapeshifters, amorphous, part human, part extensions of the landscape, make their way through forces that would consume them. A blue fox, a giant fish and language stretc

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From the author of international bestseller Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 \'\'Cho\'s complex, humane, and by its end utterly transfixing novel shows that it is in community that we find resilience.\' i newspaper \'Like Bong Joon-ho\'s Academy Award-winning film Parasite and the popular Netflix series Squid Games, Saha points to the increasing inequality and lack of social mobility in South Korea. ... With

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Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it\'s his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months.

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It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night.

The government has cleaned up Harare for the Queen of England\'s visit. \'The townships are too full of people, they said, gather them up and put them in the places the Queen will not see.\' Four waves of people have settled on Easterly Farm since then, living on the margins in homes that will soon be destroyed.

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