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2 months ago | 
newyorker.com | Martha Gellhorn |David Kidd |Frances Wood |Aube Rey Lescure
In the nineteen-nineties, Fuchsia Dunlop—now a celebrated food writer and expert in Chinese cooking—enrolled at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, becoming the first foreigner to attend one of China’s most venerated culinary schools. Recently, Dunlop joined us to discuss a collection of books that chronicle the experiences of foreign adventurers in China.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
redhot.sg | Aube Rey Lescure
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
straitstimes.com | Aube Rey Lescure |Charmaine R. Lim
Debut author Aube Rey Lescure tackles the search to understand race, class, cultural identity and family in River East, River West. PHOTOS: AN ZI, DUCKWORTH Updated Aug 31, 2024, 11:00 AM Published Aug 31, 2024, 11:00 AM River East, River West By Aube Rey LescureLiterary fiction/Duckworth/Paperback/352 pages/$23.95 Already a subscriber?
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
readings.com.au | V. V. Ganeshananthan |Aube Rey Lescure
The shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2024 has been announced! The Prize is awarded annually to the author of the best full-length novel of the year written in English and published in the UK. The winner receives £30,000, anonymously endowed, and the ‘Bessie’, a bronze statuette created by the artist Grizel Niven.
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Aube Rey Lescure
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Apr 3, 2024 | 
lithub.com | Aube Rey Lescure
A woman in a luxurious backless gown stands alone in a nighttime commercial street in Hong Kong. The woman, with light hair and pale skin, is unmistakably white. (She’s Nicole Kidman). The street, wet from recent rain and lined with Chinese shop signs, is improbably empty: of Hongkongers, of locals.
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Mar 6, 2024 | 
readings.com.au | Maya Binyam |Karen Lord |Aube Rey Lescure
The longlist for the 2024 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been announced! The Women’s Prize for Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world. The winner receives a cheque for £30,000 and a limited edition bronze figurine known as a ‘Bessie’, created and donated by the artist Grizel Niven. Both are anonymously endowed. Below are the sixteen longlisted books.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
themillions.com | Aube Rey Lescure
It made headlines around the world: The young man was doing pull-ups at the top of a skyscraper and let go. “Let go” might not be the right word: it implies intention. “Fell,” however, implies total accident. His arms gave out. He’d reached his limit. I don’t know, because I watched the video until that moment neared, and then couldn’t go on. It was snuff, I thought. To witness that moment would be to witness something horrible and real. His name was Wu Yongning.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
everand.com | Aube Rey Lescure
It made headlines around the world: The young man was doing pull-ups at the top of a skyscraper and let go. “Let go” might not be the right word: it implies intention. “Fell,” however, implies total accident. His arms gave out. He’d reached his limit. I don’t know, because I watched the video until that moment neared, and then couldn’t go on. It was snuff, I thought. To witness that moment would be to witness something horrible and real. His name was Wu Yongning.
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Jan 29, 2024 | 
writing.ie | Aube Rey Lescure
On Migration Narratives: Author Aube Rey Lescure on her new novel, River East, River West. When readers meet Lu Fang in 1985, he is on one of his daily swims towards the heart of the Yellow Sea. “North of Harbin, a river separated China and Russia,” he thinks. “Mongolia, Kazakhstan–those were land borders…Narrow lines you could not cross. But the sea wasn’t a border, and no one was here to stop you from swimming a little farther each day.
