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In the First Circle (Russian: В круге первом, romanized: V kruge pervom; also published as The First Circle) is a novel by Russian writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, released in 1968. A more complete version of the book was published in English in 2009.
Great Circle is a 2021 novel by American writer Maggie Shipstead, published on May 4, 2021, by Alfred A. Knopf. [ 1 ] The novel was shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize and the 2022 Women's Prize for Fiction .
The critic aggregates Books in the Media and Bookmarks gave the book ratings of 4.14 and 4 out of 5, respectively. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In a review for The New York Times , Claire Messud describes Miller's Circe as "pleasurable," approving of its feminist themes and its "highly psychologized, redemptive and ultimately exculpatory account" of Circe's ...
The book also began in the third person—"Shroud was the latest in a series of novels of mine in the first person, all of them about men in trouble. I knew I had to find a new direction. So I started to write The Sea in the third person. It was going to be very short, seventy pages or so, and solely about childhood holidays at the seaside ...
Mae's very first day at The Circle ends with a party where she encounters Francis, who remains a love interest throughout the rest of the novel. Later, Mae encounters and quickly becomes romantically involved with a mysterious colleague named Kalden, even though she is unable to verify his status at the company, or even obtain his last name.
In the March/April 2018 issue of Bookmarks, the book received a rating of 4.0 out of 5 based on critic reviews with a summary saying, "And though his characters are quite often, as the Chicago Tribune critic writes, "diminished and winnowed by their struggles with life," Johnson lifts them in a voice that is "nearly boundless in its generosity ...
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By the Sea is a novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah. It was first published in the United States by The New Press on 11 June 2001 [1] and in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury Publishing in May 2001. [2] It is Gurnah's sixth novel. [3] By the Sea was longlisted for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. [4]