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Abdulrazak Gurnah: By the sea (2002, Bloomsbury) 4 stars

By the sea

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Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.

Sally Rooney: Gente Normal / Normal People (Spanish language, 2020, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial) 5 stars

Gente Normal / Normal People

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At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection …