What is an individual? Wherein does his identity reside? All novels seek to answer these questions. Milan Kundera

GALWAY PUBLIC LIBRARIES - FOR BOOKS AND IDEAS
Readers may be interested in the following books which have been added to stock at Galway City Library:

The Dream Life of Sukanov, by Olga Grushin
Two extraordinary things: this book exudes the wisdom of maturity in a first novel, and the young, Russian-born author writes beautifully-in English! Recounts the life of an art critic who enjoys all the perks of a pre-Gorbachev existence, but eventually is forced to confront the loss of his beloved wife, his two children, his editorship, in a word, his identity. An absorbing chronicle of life at the end of the Soviet era. Simply stunning. (Library Journal)

The Tango Singer, by Tomás Eloy Martínez
In September of 2001, a foreign student arrives at Buenos Aires in search of a mythological singer who has given back to the tango its purity and original wild abandon. What he finds is something much more precious: a city that is to him divulging its last and future secrets with an intensity, a beauty and a chaos. In a dazzling way, this novel summarizes the spirit of the tango, and simultaneously reveals Buenos Aires where the reality, like a labyrinth, is unfolded in infinite plots.

Cut Time: An Education at the Fights, by Carlo Rotella
Maybe it's our eternal search for meaning. Or maybe it's just our attempt to rationalize endless hours spent in front of the tube watching people run, jump, or pound on one another. Whatever the reason, many people seem compelled to portray sports as a metaphor for life. Rotella's conversations with Larry Holmes offer insight into a man who might have been considered one of the all-time greats had he not followed in the considerable wake of Muhammad Ali. (Library Journal)

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