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Briefly Noted.(Wish I Could Be There)(Zoli)(A Long Way Gone)(The Terror)(Brief article)(Book review)
"The Terror," by Dan Simmons
"A Long Way Gone," by Ishmael Beah
"Wish I Could Be There," by Allen Shawn
Zoli, by Colum McCann (Random House; $24.95). In the story of Zoli, who is loosely based on the Romany poet Papusza, McCann calls into question easy notions about the inherent value of the written word and the places we call home. Zoli, a Communist, is first betrayed by the Party--which, after initially exalting the Gypsies, burned their wagons and forced them into housing projects--and then cast out by her ...
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