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BOOKS / SUNDAY BOOK REVIEW | December 2, 2007 Holiday Books: 100 Notable Books of 2007
The Book Review picks outstanding works from the last year.
http://tinyurl.com/2zttv6
Includes the following titles:
THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
By Junot Díaz
(Riverhead, $24.95.) A nerdy Dominican-American yearns to write and fall in love.
http://authors.aalbc.com/junot_diaz.htm
SELECTED POEMS
By Derek Walcott
Edited by Edward Baugh. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) The Nobel Prize winner Walcott, who was born on St. Lucia, is a long-serving poet of exile, caught between two races and two worlds.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374260664/ref=nosim/aalbccom-20
BROTHER, I’M DYING
By Edwidge Danticat
(Knopf, $23.95.) Danticat’s cleareyed prose and unflinching adherence to the facts conceal an undercurrent of melancholy in this memoir of her Haitian family.
http://www.aalbc.com/authors/edwidge.htm
LONG WAY GONE: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
By Ishmael Beah
(Sarah Crichton/-Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A former child warrior gives literary voice to the violence and killings he both witnessed and perpetrated during the Sierra Leone civil war.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0374105235/ref=nosim/aalbccom-20
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