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Building a Mountain by Lucia Tallova @artonpaperam

Building a Mountain by Lucia Tallova @artonpaperamsterdam

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

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

Lauren Groff live in Amsterdam

Lauren Groff live in Amsterdam

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The Storyteller #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under fiction (short)

The Reluctant Recipe Reader #bookstagram #bookrevi

The Reluctant Recipe Reader #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under nonfiction

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

My words in @brevitylitmag #72! https://bit.ly/3wdrYxQ Gorgeous art by @sheilasquill

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Flash #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under nonfiction

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Until we meet again

Until we meet again

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

Red, blues and a little white @buluchula @hyemad @lailas_levain do you remember?

Is it weird to hit the cemetery as your first stop

Is it weird to hit the cemetery as your first stop in Paris?

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Dialect #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under poetry

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Little Public Library #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under literary journals

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A Sly Wit #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under fiction (short)

Happening now! https://www.perdu.nl/nl/r/dialect-o

Happening now! https://www.perdu.nl/nl/r/dialect-of-distant-harbors/

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Join us this Saturday @stichtingperdu for poetry by @dipikamukherjeeauthor, Mia You & @millavanderhave to celebrate the launch Dialect of Distant Harbors and writing between languages. https://bit.ly/3UomkTP

"Perhaps she has shut herself into a room to write

"Perhaps she has shut herself into a room to write. Her kids have promised not to knock or make noise. But she knows they are there because they are lying down and breathing under the door." Julie Phillips. Mother-Heroes #bookstagram #bookreview link in bio under nonfiction

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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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Boekhandel van Rossum, Amsterdam

American Book Center, Amsterdam

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