Throughout this entrancing and disturbing novel, there is a continual sense of oscillation: a movement from a concrete, secure space, to an unfettered, uncertain realm, and then ba
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Great news for the children’s books world: Dedalus Books, doubtless known to most Riveting Reviews readers for their thirty-six years of publishing international books in English
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In Boccaccio’s Decameron ten young people escape the plague-ridden city of Florence and spend ten days travelling between beautifully appointed houses in the Tuscan countryside a
