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D.’s 2025 Year in Books
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D. Foy
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Mojave Desert, CA, The United States
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March 2013
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Made to Break
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2014
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5 editions
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Patricide
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2016
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Absolutely Golden
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2017
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Frequencies: Volume 3 (Frequencies, 3)
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2013
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Laundromat
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2013
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(Made to Break) [By: Foy, D] [Mar, 2014]
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"i’m flabbergasted to meet such a book that leaves a bitter taste from the historical event itself. looking into the life of Qing Yuan, a morgue keeper who probably hoped for a normal & steady life: got a job, built a family, nothing surprising. howev"
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"Thank you NetGalley for this ARC. Truly.
Qing Yuan is a morgue attendant during the 1960s in China. The environment is harsh, people are often suspicious of each other, and the loneliness is expansive. One day a Jane Doe is wheeled into the morgue, m" Read more of this review » |
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"Thank you NetGalley and 7.13 Books for an ARC of this book.
‘The Morgue Keeper’ is a beautifully dark historical fiction about the early days of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. It follows Qing Yuan, a morgue keeper whose life is a repetitive dirge of" Read more of this review » |
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"The Morgue Keeper is set during the Cultural Revolution in Beijing, China. The protagonist, Qing Yuan, is at the bottom rung of society as he was forced into the role of a morgue keeper due to his family’s transgressions. After over a decade of this "
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“Throughout the city anything that moved raised clouds of yellowy dust. Women with straw baskets trudged along in their cloth shoes, licking their lips and coughing. The men stood beneath awnings and wilted trees sweating as they smoked. The heat had been foreordained. There would be no respite. On the corner of every block the so-called news blared from the omnipresent speakers.”
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Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The Book Club: Books and Authors in the Media | 71 | 116 | Jan 14, 2015 01:36PM | |
| 21st Century Lite...: Book News | 79 | 228 | Dec 08, 2017 08:17AM |
“They shared indescribable pain. They had loved, they'd been loved, they had triumphed, they had lost. They were still alive. They wanted still to live, and more, to love again, despite.”
― The Morgue Keeper
― The Morgue Keeper
“Torture, Qing Yuan thought, had become a spectacle. Few if any had considered how far they'd had to stoop to embrace a joy born of savagery.”
― The Morgue Keeper
― The Morgue Keeper
“Throughout the city anything that moved raised clouds of yellowy dust. Women with straw baskets trudged along in their cloth shoes, licking their lips and coughing. The men stood beneath awnings and wilted trees sweating as they smoked. The heat had been foreordained. There would be no respite. On the corner of every block the so-called news blared from the omnipresent speakers.”
― The Morgue Keeper
― The Morgue Keeper
