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Author Archives: Dalibor Plečić

A Review of Moon Brow by Shahriar Mandanipour

January 7, 2019

Dalibor Plečić

Translated from Persian by Sara Khalili (Brooklyn, NY: Restless Books, 2018) Shahriar Mandanipour is certainly one of the most skilled and renowned writers in contemporary Iranian literature. He has authored nine volumes of fiction, one nonfiction book, and more than … Continued

A Review of The Book of the Dead by Orikuchi Shinobu

October 9, 2017

Dalibor Plečić

Translated from the Japanese by Jeffrey Angles. (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2017) There is a line of dialogue in Robert Zemeckis’s cult science-fiction movie Back to the Future 3 between the famous Doc and Marty whereby the Doc … Continued

A Review of Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun by Homare Endo

June 12, 2017

Dalibor Plečić

Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China’s Wartime Atrocity.  Translated from the Chinese by Michael Brase. (Berkely, CA: Stone Bridge Press, 2016) There is an old Chinese curse that says “May you live in interesting times.” … Continued

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