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Archive for December 7, 2010

UNDER FISHBONE CLOUDS by Sam Meekings

If UNDER FISHBONE CLOUDS doesn’t attain the high readership it deserves, there is no justice. It’s quite simply one of the most lavishly imagined, masterfully researched, exquisitely written contemporary novels I’ve read. And if that sounds as if I’m gushing…well, it’s probably because I am.

December 7, 2010  Tags: Around-the-World, Chinese, Family Matters, Historical, Literary, love, lyrical, Myth  Posted in: 2010 Top Picks, China, Magical Realism, Real Event Fiction, Real People Fiction, World Literature  No Comments

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