With their novelistic experiments with form and content, bold literary ideas and a sense of rhythm, Japanese writers in translation are achieving commercial success and critical acclaim more than ever before. The boom in Latin American literature in the 1960s and 1970s, led by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (Colombia), Carlos Fuentes (Mexico), and Mario Vargas Llosa …
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A former Iowa chiropractor who worked in Oelwein in the mid-1990s before settling in Croatia more than 26 years ago to practice, Douglas Cavanaugh has published his second historical novel about growing up in Northeast Iowa. Cavanaugh recently donated his second novel, published on March 3, 2020, to the Oelwein Public Library. Titled “A Long …
IIn his novel The White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov painted an evocative portrait of a house from his childhood. Inside was a Dutch oven burning with heat, a piano and library, and cream curtains. The family apartment on the first floor was located in a “two-story building with a strikingly unusual design.” In winter, the snow …