http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/print/sunday/bookworld?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldBook Worlden-us1514020http://www.washingtonpost.comhttp://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gifhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7866-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7866-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTReviewed David W. Blighthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7865-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7865-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT My Search for My Mother's Life
By Samuel G. Freedman]]> Jonathan Yardleyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7867-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7867-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT The Forgotten Story of Robert Carter, the Founding Father Who Freed His Slaves]]>Reviewed Melvin Patrick Elyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7868-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7868-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTJohn Brown, Abolitionist, for an online discussion on Tuesday, April 26, at 3:30 p.m. The first chapter is available online at www.washingtonpost.com/books. ]]>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7869-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7869-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America]]>Reviewed Alicia L. Younghttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7870-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7870-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7872-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7872-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT By Wesley Stace
Little, Brown. 529 pp. $23.95]]>Reviewed Rodney Welchhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7871-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7871-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT By Simonetta Agnello Hornby
Translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen]]>Reviewed Wendy Smithhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7873-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7873-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTBy Judy Fong Bates. Counterpoint. 315 pp. Paperback, $14]]>Reviewed Ron Charleshttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7874-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7874-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT By Daniel Silva. Putnam. 369 pp. $25.95]]>Reviewed Richard Lipezhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7876-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7876-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT By Colin Jones. Viking. 566 pp. $29.95]]>Reviewed Charles Truehearthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7875-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7875-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT By Diana Abu-Jaber
Pantheon. 330 pp. $23]]>Reviewed Anissa Helouhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7877-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7877-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT Hans Breuer, Austria's last wandering shepherd, seems like a terrific character for a novel. He's got comic potential: Picture this middle-aged man in a wide-brimmed hat, singing folksongs while he ushers his flock through Alpine villages past bemused locals. He's got a serious side, too: In addition to being something of a relic by profession, Breuer is conspicuous as a Jew in a country that has yet to come to terms with its Nazi past.]]> Wayne Hoffmanhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7878-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7878-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTWar, statutory rape, child abuse and racism are hardly the stuff of comedy, but in Towelhead (Simon & Schuster, $22), Alicia Erian succeeds in blending this weird and sometimes shocking mix of elements into a funny, poignant and utterly readable first novel. (Her collection of short stories, The Brutal Language of Love, was published in 2001.)]]> Susan Collhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7879-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7879-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7881-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7881-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTBy Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly, $23)]]>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7880-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7880-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT Graceland, by Chris Abani (Picador, $14). This novel takes place in Lagos, Nigeria, where novelist Abani was born. (He lives now in L.A.) Sixteen-year-old Elvis (yes, as in Presley) hopes to make it out of Maroko, the Lagos ghetto -- a "swamp city," he calls it -- where he's lived since his father fell on hard times. Is doing impersonations of the King of Rock-and-Roll his ticket out? Is there any ticket out of the postcolonial hell Elvis inhabits, where people are driven to sell anything they have and where abuse, corruption and torture are as common as Coca-Cola?]]>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7882-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7882-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT The Daring Rescue of the
Ethiopian Jews]]>Reviewed Charles Lanehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7883-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7883-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMTPoems: New and Selected has the wonderful, commanding power of true attention: She sees and considers with intensity. Her poems often give fresh examples of how rare and thrilling it can be to notice.]]> Robert Pinskyhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7884-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7884-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_print/sunday/bookworldSun, 24 Apr 2005 8:53:05 GMT