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Recounting the story of her life, Oei plunges us into the colorful world of nineteenth-century Edo, in which courtesans rub shoulders with poets, warriors consort with actors, and the arts flourish in an unprecedented moment of creative upheaval....
"For three decades following World War II, the Great Lakes overtook Europe as the epicenter of global economic strength. The region was the beating heart of the world economy, possessing all the power and prestige Silicon Valley does today. And no...
An extraordinary love story and a captivating novel about the power of memory and imagination: Flanders 1922. After serving as a soldier in the Great War, Noon Merckem has lost his memory and lives in a psychiatric asylum. Countless women,...
"As a Vietnam war veteran I had high hopes for this novel about a Belgian WW 1 veteran amnesia and PTSD, but with 500 plus pages of run on sentences it became a slog to finish. It reminded me of Mark Twain’s old joke about his travels in Germany w..."
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