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Building a Mountain by Lucia Tallova @artonpaperam

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The Kenyon Review in the wild with my words, too!

Lauren Groff live in Amsterdam

The Storyteller #bookstagram #bookreview link in b

The Reluctant Recipe Reader #bookstagram #bookrevi

My words in @brevitylitmag #72! https://bit.ly/3wd

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Until we meet again

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Red, blues and a little white @buluchula @hyemad @

Is it weird to hit the cemetery as your first stop

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"Perhaps she has shut herself into a room to write

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Praise for The Dancing Girl and the Turtle

Cha: An Asian Literary Journal: “deeply disturbing”, “grippingly realistic” “engrossing outset for the next volume of the Shanghai Quartet”

Hong Kong Review of Books: “the brutally authentic struggles [and] the powerful message make this story vital”

South China Morning Post: “makes Fifty Shades of Grey look like light bondage”

Los Angeles Review of Books: “a remarkable character-driven debut”

Expatica: “The writing is exceptional”

Holland Times: “Kao’s prose is vivid and immediate”

Historical Novel Society: “a story I will go on thinking about for a good while”

Contemporary Small Press: “The human need for intimacy and understanding is apparent on every page”

Rhiannon Jenkins Tsang: “Karen Kao is a master of the Noir”

bookish.asia: “an ambitious, striking addition”

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Linen Press

Boekhandel van Rossum, Amsterdam

American Book Center, Amsterdam

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