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We were enticed by the stunning cover of Fracture $We were enticed by the stunning cover of Fracture by Argentinian writer and poet Andrés Neuman and we were not disappointed. “When a piece of pottery breaks, the kintsugi craftspeople place powdered gold into each crack to emphasise the spot where the break occurred. Exposed rather than concealed, these fractures and their repair occupy a central place in the history of the object. By accentuating this memory, it is ennobled. Something that has survived damage can be considered more valuable, more beautiful.” Mr. Watanabe is a victim of one of the largest collective traumas of the last century, and a fugitive from his own memory. A survivor of the atomic bombs dropped in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, he has evaded the trauma of those experiences for most of his adult life. When the earthquake which precedes the Fukushima nuclear disaster strikes, the past becomes present, and Mr Watanabe begins a journey that will change everything. Meanwhile, four women based in Paris, New York, Buenos Aires, and Madrid tell their own stories of knowing and loving Mr Watanabe to an enigmatic Argentine journalist, their intimate criss-crossed perspectives revealing how each human event expands far beyond the place it occurred and how every society remembers and forgets it catastrophes. Link in bio #readingwithdauntbooks #fracture #bookstagram$

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Very Nice by @mdermansky is the clever, funny and

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A joyful, delicious and beautifully crafted travelogue with recipes, that follows @felicitycloake as she tastes her way across France by bicycle. As anyone who is familiar with her 'How to Cook the Perfect' column will know, Cloake is eminently trustworthy as a guide to what to eat and how to prepare it, but with One more Croissant for the Road she proves that she is also a brilliant travel writer. Right now, when a French holiday is a distant dream, here is the perfect getaway.

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