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Saturday 11 June 2011

Some Monthly Reads

Some books slated for review in The Star arrived at my desk today, courtesy of the MPH book people.


Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La (left) and Chan Koonchung's The Fat Years


  • Lost in Shangri-La
    A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and
    the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II

    Mitchell Zuckoff
    Harper (2011)
    Non-fiction
    384 pages
    ISBN: 978-0-06-209358-5
  • The Fat Years
    The Notorious Novel No-one in China Dared Publish
    Chan Koonchung
    Translated from the Chinese by Michael S Duke
    With a Preface by Julia Lovell
    Doubleday (July 2011)
    Fiction
    307 pages
    ISBN: 9780385619189

The Fat Years will probably be slated for publication in The Star's Monthly Reads in July. And it means I'd better wrap up this month's review.

I haven't been as prolific as I'd like with regards to book reviews. I'm trying to be cautious as well, because writing a review based on first impressions can be a risky proposition.

Guess it's time to get cracking.

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