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|author= P K Lynch
|title= Armadillos
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= Aggie is one of Texas' downtrodden. Dirt poor and abused. ''a 'sub' from a 'sub' family'' … ''Her father and brother enact that 'sub'-ness on her, week in, week out.'' ''She has only the vaguest notion that there is something wrong with the abuse she endures..''
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178507959X</amazonuk>
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|author=Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)
|summary= Deep in the heart of Germany sits the village of Furstenfelde. It lies on a spit of land that, legend has it, a giant created, between two lakes – the Great Lake, and the Deep Lake. All around is forest. The village is enjoying summer, and we can see the inhabitants as they go about their lazy life on the last hot day and night before the seasons change, from the teenage lads fishing and crashing cars or preparing for a bell-ringing exam, to the girl who wants out, to the middle-aged man who made a pub out of a garage and some curtains, to the older man (a retired soldier) who is watching his last piece of titillating TV before going out to either fetch cigarettes or shoot himself, to the older still lady painting a portrait of the town ready to auction it off on the morrow. For the morrow is the annual fete, and all those people are, one way or another, reacting to its imminent arrival.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782271295</amazonuk>
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