The Washington Post
February 13, 2005 Sunday
Final Edition
Washington Is Also Reading . . . Selling Well in Local Independent
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Birds Without Wings
By Louis de Bernières (Knopf, $25.95)
De Bernières’ much anticipated new novel relays, in epic fashion, the
dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the rise of the modern Turkish
state via a small Anatolian village whose multicultural tranquility
is shattered by the vagaries of war and the Armenian massacre.
(F)
In Other Words
By Christopher J. Moore (Walker, $14)
As translators of foreign works into English can attest, the nuances
of other languages often make a precise English rendering of a word
or phrase next to impossible. Moore, a linguist, has assembled a
global lexicon of some of the more difficult and amusing examples.
(NF)
What We Do Now
Ed. by Dennis Loy Johnson & Valerie
Merians (Melville, $12). The 2004 election is history. As the shock
abates and a new game plan emerges on the Left, a group of 24
prominent progressives offer their vision of how to counter the
conservative rally. And for the inspired, a gazetteer of activist
group contacts is included. (NF)
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