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...In the end we chose John Vaillant’s Fire Weather (Sceptre/Knopf), a thrillingly detailed, pacily told account of a massive wildfire in the oil sands region of northern Canada that became a climate disaster...
...The best book on Cézanne since Meyer Shapiro’s in 1962....
...Icarus, by Deon Meyer, translated by KL Seegers, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£17.99 Meyer’s novels present an unvarnished picture of the social divisions in post-apartheid South Africa....
...Poor Immigrant is the multilayered story of, on the one hand, the writer Hannah Groff’s investigation into the murder of David Bellen, an Israeli poet, and on the other, the mid-century Jewish gangster Meyer...
...Meyer was named in 2010 as one of the New Yorker’s “20 under 40” names to watch....
...start from a western perspective but Meyer and Kirby urge readers to change their point of view....
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