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...A former soldier in Afghanistan, Parker has won praise for his battlefield story of patriotism and heroism, Anatomy of a Soldier....
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...Protagonist Barbara Parker progresses from beauty pageants and make-up counters to a role in a successful sitcom. Artful and perceptive....
..., by Mo Yan, translated by Howard Goldblatt, Seagull Books, RRP£18 The winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature serves up a Kafkaesque depiction of Chinese village life corrupted by greed and modernisation...
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