Peter Owen

Book Reviews

• *Alberta and Jacob (Cora Sandel)
  - coming of age in a small town in northern Norway
• The Butcher's Wife (Li Ang)
  - a young Chinese woman is driven to madness and murder
• Passport to Yesterday (Yuri Druzhnikov)
  - looking back at a childhood in WWII Russia
• Pushkin's Second Wife (Yuri Druzhnikov)
  And Other Micronovels
• *The Samurai (Shusaku Endo)
  - a novel of Christian faith in 17th century Japan
• To the Slaughterhouse (Jean Giono)
  - a Provençal village in the Great War