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European fiction about struggling women -- rich and poor, powerful and helpless.

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Reviewed by Mylne Dressler
Sunday, November 13, 2005

ANGELINA'S CHILDREN

By Alice Ferney

Translated from the French by Emily Read

Bitter Lemon. 217 pp. Paperback, $13.95

NOTHING SERIOUS

By Justine Lvy

Translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell

Melville House. 220 pp. Paperback, $15

THE OLD CHILD AND OTHER STORIES

By Jenny Erpenbeck

Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

New Directions. 120 pp. Paperback, $14.95


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