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Ornament of Asia

Ornament of Asia

Alice Kavounas

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Shearsman Books
Año de edición:
2009
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Poesía
ISBN:
9781848610613
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In Ornament of Asia, Alice Kavounas engages us with daring personal stories, as well as quotidian moments, expressed in vivid, precise language. Following on from The Invited (Sinclair-Stevenson), with its 'brilliant lyrical style' (Alan Brownjohn), Alice Kavounas has deepened and widened her range. She writes from an unusual perspective: a New Yorker whose father escaped from his idyllic birthplace in the dying days of the Ottoman Empire to build a new life in America.

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