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We’re getting in early with our top 10 reads for 2014.

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Chat on December 17, 2014BooksAleksandar Hemnon, Anthony Doerr, Ceridwen Dovey, Geoff Nicholson, Ismail Kadare, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Marjana Gaponenko, Penelope Fitzgerald, Rabih Alameddine, Richard Flanagan, Top reads for 2014gertloveday

Chronicle in stone – Ismail Kadare

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Chronicle in stone

 

Mane Voco’s elder son Isa has done something unheard of – he has started wearing glasses.

 

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