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Nanjing Normal University

NNU’s alumnus Xu Zechen won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Prize

Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction by Nick Ripatrazone: The Millions’ own Ripatrazone has proven himself over the past decade to be one of our most adept critics at explicating the faith of poetry and the poetics of faith. Now in Longing for an Absent God: Faith and Doubt in Great American Fiction,Continue reading “https://themillions.com/2020/01/draft-most-anticipated-the-great-first-half-2020-book-preview.html”

The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich: Celebrated novelist Erdrich, author of Love Medicine, The Plague of Doves, and The Round House, returns to the Chippewa Turtle Mountain Reservation in The Night Watchman. One of the most powerful voices in contemporary Native-American literature, Erdrich provides a fictionalization of her own uncle’s story, when he journeyed from North Dakota to Washington DC inContinue reading “https://themillions.com/2020/01/draft-most-anticipated-the-great-first-half-2020-book-preview.html”

Amnesty by Aravind Adiga: The Booker Prize-winning author’s new novel depicts the plight of an illegal immigrant and refugee in Australia. The protagonist, Danny (short for Dhananjaya), flees his native Sri Lanka for Sydney, where he takes up residence in a grocery stockroom and works as a cleaner to support himself. He gets by and saves upContinue reading “https://themillions.com/2020/01/draft-most-anticipated-the-great-first-half-2020-book-preview.html”

And I Do Not Forgive You by Amber Sparks: A rangy yarn-spinner, Sparks is capable of real surprise and real sentiment. There are ghosts here, and women who have been buried in history. In “Our Mutual (Theater) Friend,” a woman “explodes every now and then in the most embarrassing fashion, usually at children’s birthday parties,” waxing “aboutContinue reading “https://themillions.com/2020/01/draft-most-anticipated-the-great-first-half-2020-book-preview.html”