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Review of Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen
In Banana Yoshimoto’s Kitchen, published in 1988 and translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus, we encounter attachments.
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Review of Pallavi Raghavan’s Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952
The story of India-Pakistan relations has often been told as one of hatred—the animosity often nurtured prior to the partition and its aftermath. It is argued that the woes of the bloody partition, ...
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Review of Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
In 1976, Historian Carlo Ginzburg published Il Formaggio e i Vermi in Italian. Four years later, Ginzburg published its English translation (translation: John and Anne Tedeschi): The Cheese and the ...
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Review of Farzana Shaikh’s Making Sense of Pakistan
There is no dearth of books about Pakistan. And there are all kinds of explanations for its raison d’etre—its contentious birth, the authoritarian roots, and the ongoing persistence of ethnic and ...