From the Land of the Moon Kristin NG-Yang ‘Mr Duiker Sang the Blues’

‘Mr Duiker Sang the Blues’ (Dyondzo Kwinika)

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From the Land of the Moon Kristin NG-Yang ‘Mr Duiker Sang the Blues’Powerful . . . The vivid descriptions of the Sardinian landscape are a fitting complement to the heroines conflicted heart (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). As this compelling novel opens, a young unnamed woman reflects on the life of her bewitching, eccentric, and fiercely emotional grandmother, whose abiding search for love spans much of the twentieth century. In 1943, as American bombs fall on the city of Cagliari, she is thirty and considered an