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#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (double Bingo!)

November 21, 2018 by Malin Leave a Comment

#CBR10Bingo: Home, Something, Home (this book is set at Stovner in Oslo, three stops away from where I live on the metro. It also concerns exactly the sort of pupils that I teach.) Two youths, both living in the same tower block in a suburb on the east side of Oslo, in Stovner (where the large majority of inhabitants are immigrants or the children of immigrants). They start out going to the same high school. Starting in the year 2000, the framing device consists of these […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, home something home, Immigration, Malin, Norwegian, poverty, Racism, Tante Ulrikkes vei, Zeshan Shakar

Malin's CBR10 Review No:99 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR10, cbr10bingo, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, home something home, Immigration, Malin, Norwegian, poverty, Racism, Tante Ulrikkes vei, Zeshan Shakar ·
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