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"Se dos livros frágeis não se conta o final, dos marcantes, muito menos. Por isso não daremos a história de Little Snow, a filha que a jornalista Xinran Xue foi impedida de adotar quando ainda morava na China. Little Snow fecha a mais recente obra de Xinran Xue, Message from an Unkown Chinese Mother, que será publicada pela Companhia das Letras neste semestre como As Filhas sem Nome. Também por respeito à escritora mais crítica da política chinesa do filho único, Little Snow permanece em segredo aqui. Durante esta entrevista, dada por celular de Santa Fé (EUA), Xinran se emocionou quando mencionamos a criança. Tanto se emocionou que se calou. "

"As snow falls across the UK, Claire Armitstead, Charlie English and Sarah Crown discuss its place in literature - from blanket beauty to cold evil. Plus, the Costa prize category winners"

"Nearly a century after Capt. Robert Falcon Scott explored the southern continent, experts are working to save the British explorer's wooden hut (pictured on Ross Island, Antarctica, in August 2006) and three others in the area from slipping under the snow forever. The sanctuary measures 50 feet (15 meters) long and 25 feet (7.6 meters) wide and was built to house up to 33 men. Scott and his crew stayed at the hut before their ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in January 1912. Scott and four others died after being beaten to the pole by Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. "Had we lived," Scott wrote in March 1912 in a message found with his body, "I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman." --Ker Than January 11, 2010"