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Festival Frenzy Every summer, tourists flock to Edinburgh, Scotland, for a month-long string of arts festivals...
Each of the six summer arts festivals here is run separately, funded by a varying mix of government monies, advertising, donors, company sponsorship and ticket sales. While auteurs head to Cannes for films, music lovers go to Salzburg for melodies, and opera fans flock to Glyndebourne, two hours outside London, for lyric drama, none of these fests offer the array that Edinburgh serves up each year. But before you book for Scotland, a word of warning: don't try to take in everything on your first jaunt. Some advance planning and a little willingness to experiment will make your Edinburgh...
...that pesky language problem got solved. Instead of "father," McKenzie says, her flock began describing her as "the mother who holds the sharp end of the knife," a reference to the Bible's Solomon-and-the-disputed-baby story, in which the child's authentic mother elects to give up the child rather than see it cut in half. "They were telling me that I was their real mother, come to care for them," she says. Lest a listener miss the point, she elaborates, "When children come to the father, he looks down and doesn't know what...
...Turkey, Greeks to Greece. The main plot, such as it is, is the violent sundering of these people, who had considered themselves simply Ottomans, into two fiercely nationalistic camps. So far, so good. But Birds Without Wings never really takes off from there, partly due to a dizzying flock of principal characters, many with no personal relationships between them. One chapter, for instance, gives you a long first-person commentary from traveling businessman Georgio P. Theodorou, who is rarely glimpsed again. The next is a third-person history lesson about the plots and machinations of Turkish leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk...
...Bernières has lost sight of what made his last book a smash: a yearning, forbidden relationship between two heroes. Instead, he gives us a dizzying flock of principal characters