Katie Kitamura's new novel follows an unnamed woman working as a translator at The Hague who works with war criminals — but can readers really know a narrator who remains resolutely unknown?
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Claire North's new Notes from the Burning Age is set far in the future — but the titular burning age is our own, an age of waste and exploitation from which only fragments of knowledge remain.
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The author has gifts as a writer: a novelistic eye for scene and detail, an ear for realistic dialogue. His story keeps moving, free of constraints common to courtroom lawyers or newspaper reporters.
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There's something that feels impossible about leaving behind the place in which we slunk our way through the last year plus. Until Proven Safe takes us to the places others lingered through time.
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