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| | Amazon.com: The Siege: A Novel: Books: Helen Dunmore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | In a novel whose every observation is so sharp the words almost hurt, Dunmore (Talking to the Dead) takes a giant step away from her praised domestic psychological dramas set in England. |
 | | In chaste yet shimmering prose, Dunmore conveys the sourness of Anna's hunger, her anguish over whether to eat an onion immediately or save it to sprout so that her five-year-old brother, Kolya, may have the precious vitamins in the shoots. |
 | | There are small overtures to hope, especially near the end, but for the most part, Dunmore has set out to overwhelm and horrify and possibly frighten us, and she has succeeded, painfully. |
| www.amazon.com /Siege-Novel-Helen-Dunmore/dp/0802117007 (2088 words) |
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