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The Godfather of Kathmandu (Sonchai Jitpleecheep, #4)
Ape House
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Operation Napoleon
Walking Dead
The Sentimentalists
The Heretic Queen
The Midnight House
Cross Fire
Peony in Love
Absurdistan
Nefertiti
Finding Nouf: A Novel
City of Veils: A Novel
First Daughter
A Place of Hiding
Amagansett
Peter Pan


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Sunday, November 16, 2025

"The Middle Kingdom", by Aviv Geva



My thoughts on this one will be short and sweet:

This is a weird story of a fictional “Red Banaba Monkey Kingdom” ruled by King Brin. It is told with whimsical rhymes and metaphors retelling of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. (which I never realized this while reading this story)

I found this style very hard to appreciate. Although it starts playful and lyrical but is rather dark. Definitively this is a daring, poetic view of a political tragedy seen through jungle mythology. Although the language is inventive and emotional charged, it did little to move me.

Written entirely in rhymed verse and biblical cadence is not a genre I enjoy. Definitely not for me but you may love this story some say it is a work of genius

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