Danny Yee's Book Reviews

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When the Sahara Was Green (Martin Williams) How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be
The Wife's Tale: A Personal History (Aida Edemariam) - a life in twentieth century Ethiopia
A Book, Untitled (Shushan Avagyan) - a metafictional excavation of Armenian literary history
Theorems of the 21st Century (Bogdan Grechuk) - elementary explanations of a hundred mathematical results
Korea: A New History of South and North (Cha, Pardo) - from political divergence to possible futures
Happy Stories, Mostly (Norman Erikson Pasaribu) - young, gay Batak students and their mothers

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