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Time of White Horses by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpanning the collapse of Ottoman rule and the British Mandate in Palestine, this is the story of three generations of a defiant family from the Palestinian village of Hadiya before 1948. Through the lives of Mahmud, chief elder of Hadiya, his son Khaled, and Khaled’s grandson Naji, we enter the life of a tribe whose fate is decided by one colonizer after another... -
![The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah]()
The Lanterns of the King of Galilee: A Novel of 18th-Century Palestine by Ibrahim Nasrallah
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn eighteenth-century Palestine, on the shores of Galilee's Lake Tiberias, visionary political and military leader Daher al-Umar al-Zaydani undertakes a journey toward the greatest aim anyone could hope to achieve in his day: the establishment of an autonomous Arab state...Categorized as:
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![Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez]()
Retrospective by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions. The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work...Categorized as:
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![Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA haunting tale of power, corruption, and the complex search for identity, Conversation in The Cathedral takes place in 1950s Peru during the dictatorship of Manuel Apolinario Odría Amoretti...Categorized as:
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![The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández]()
The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn engrossing, incantatory novel about the legacy of historical crimes by the author of Space InvadersIt is 1984 in Chile, in the middle of the Pinochet dictatorship. A member of the secret police walks into the office of a dissident magazine and finds a reporter, who records his testimony...Categorized as:
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![Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi]()
Missing Soluch by Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsPerhaps the most important work in modern Iranian literature, this starkly beautiful novel examines the trials of an impoverished woman and her children living in a remote village in Iran, after the unexplained disappearance of her husband, Soluch.Lyrical yet unsparing, the novel examines her life as she contends with the political corruption, authoritarianism, and poverty of the village... -
![The Neighbors by Ahmad Mahmoud]()
The Neighbors by Ahmad Mahmoud
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAhmad Mahmoud sets The Neighbors against the backdrop of the oil nationalization crisis that gripped Iran in the early 1950s...Categorized as:
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![Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi]()
Mama Hissa's Mice by Saud Alsanousi
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFrom the author of The Bamboo Stalk and winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction comes an apocalyptic and caustically funny novel about the power of friendship in a war-torn world...Categorized as:
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![The Trench by عبد الرحمن منيف]()
The Trench by عبد الرحمن منيف
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMunif sets this second volume of his critically acclaimed Cities of Salt trilogy in a Middle Eastern kingdom during the 1950s... -
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Em by Kim Thúy
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsKim Thúy's Em is a mesmerizing novel of profound power and tenderness, and an affirmation of the greatest act of resistance: love. In the midst of war, an ordinary miracle: an abandoned baby tenderly cared for by a young boy living on the streets of Saigon. The boy is Louis, the child of a long-gone American soldier. Louis calls the baby em Hồng, em meaning little sister, or beloved... -
![News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso]()
News from the Empire by Fernando del Paso
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the acknowledged masterpieces of Mexican literature, Fernando del Paso's News from the Empire is a powerful and encyclopedic novel of the tragic lives of Maximilian and his wife, Carlota, the short-lived Emperor and Empress of Mexico...Categorized as:
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![Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko]()
Edenglassie by Melissa Lucashenko
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful Nita in Edenglassie, their saltwater people still outnumber the British. As colonial unrest peaks, Mulanyin dreams of taking his bride home to Yugambeh Country, but his plans for independence collide with white justice. Two centuries later, fiery activist Winona meets Dr Johnny...Categorized as:
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![Cry of the Curlew by Peter Watt]()
Cry of the Curlew by Peter Watt
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSquatter Donald Macintosh little realises what chain of events he is setting in motion when he orders the violent dispersal of the Nerambura tribe on his property, Glen View. Unwitting witnesses to the barbaric exercise are bullock teamsters Patrick Duffy and his son Tom...Categorized as:
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![I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight]()
I Been in Sorrow's Kitchen and Licked Out All the Pots by Susan Straight
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBeginning in the late 1950s, this novel tells the story of Marietta Cook, a tall girl growing up in Pine Gardens, a Gullah-speaking village in South Carolina. When Marietta's mother dies, she heads to Charleston in search of her uncle - only to find a lover and return pregnant with twins two years later... -
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![Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain]()
Les Caprices d'un astre by Antoine Laurain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsXavier Lemercier, agent immobilier, trouve au hasard d'une visite d'appartement un mystérieux télescope ayant appartenu à un célèbre astronome. Voilà bientôt qu'il cadre dans l'instrument, depuis son balcon, une femme derrière une fenêtre, sans oser, bien sûr, l'aborder. Divorcé et esseulé, avec pour seules joies ses week-ends avec son jeune fils, il commence à tomber amoureux de l'inconnue...Categorized as:
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![Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton]()
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis astonishingly proficient and gripping first novel should be required reading for anyone who calls him or herself a responsible citizen. Not only is it masterfully written, with images as sharp as shards of broken glass, but it also carries a message so potent it burns into the conscience...Categorized as:
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![The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami]()
The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn international bestseller available in English for the first time,a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture and endless feuds between clansA dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul s Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered... -
![Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa]()
Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe true story of Guatemala's political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it.Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz...Categorized as:
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![Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني]()
Zayni Barakat by Gamal al-Ghitani, جمال الغيطاني
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the course of my long travels I have never seen a city so devastated. After a long time I ventured out into the streets. Death, cold and heavy, hung in the air. Walls have no value here, doors have been eliminated. No one is certain that they will see another day...Categorized as:
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![White Dog Fell from the Sky by Eleanor Morse]()
White Dog Fell from the Sky by Eleanor Morse
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story... -
![A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang]()
A Map for the Missing by Belinda Huijuan Tang
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAn epic, mesmerizing debut novel set against a rapidly changing post-Cultural Revolution China, A Map for the Missing reckons with the costs of pursuing one's dreams and the lives we leave behindTang Yitian has been living in America for almost a decade when he receives an urgent phone call from his mother: his father has disappeared from the family's rural village in China...Categorized as:
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![Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Luciano Funetta]()
Space Invaders by Nona Fernández, Luciano Funetta
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s ChileSpace Invaders is the story of a group of childhood friends who, in adulthood, are preoccupied by uneasy memories and visions of their classmate Estrella González Jepsen... -
![Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best]()
Tempest at Dawn by James D. Best
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs featured on The Glenn Beck Show . Tempest at Dawn is on the Glenn Beck Reading List. The United States is on the brink of total collapse. The military has been reduced to near extinction, economic turmoil saps hope, and anarchy threatens as world powers hover like vultures, eager to devour the remains... -
![The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis]()
The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Cantoras comes an incandescent novel--political, mystical, timely, and heartening--about the power of memory, and the pursuit of justice...Categorized as:
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![Without a Glimmer of Remorse by Pino Cacucci]()
Without a Glimmer of Remorse by Pino Cacucci
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA fascinating dramatized fiction of the life and times of Jules Bonnot, his ‘gang’, and associates, the individualist anarchists of the time, including the young Victor Serge... -
![Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira]()
Her Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer Mother's Mother's Mother and Her Daughters tells the story of Brazil through the histories of a twenty women. It opens with Inaia being born in 1500, at the moment when the Portuguese arrive in Brazil and continues through to the present, tracing this fascinating lineage of women against the historical backdrop of Brazil's ups and downs, challenges and triumphs...Categorized as:
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![The Disappeared by Rebecca J. Sanford]()
The Disappeared by Rebecca J. Sanford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsInspired by the real mothers and grandmothers who spoke out against Argentina’s military dictatorship, The Disappeared is an award-winning debut about identity, family secrets, and those who endured decades of hardship to expose the truth.In 1976 Buenos Aires, Lorena Ledesma is a housewife with dangerous secrets living under Argentina’s rising military dictatorship...Categorized as:
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![The Old American by Ernest Hebert]()
The Old American by Ernest Hebert
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mix of popular genres from top-selling American authors. Readers will relish themes of love, glamour, politics, perseverance, resilience, innovation and the pioneer spirit from some of the best-loved writers of modern fiction, nonfiction and biography...Categorized as:
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![Trask by Don Berry]()
Trask by Don Berry
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in 1848 on the wild edge of the continent, in the rain forests and rugged headlands of the Oregon coast Trask follows a mountain man's quest for new opportunities and new land to settle. The OSU Press is proud to reissue Berry's celebrated first book, considered one of the finest historical novels of the American West...Categorized as:
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![人面桃花 (江南三部曲) / Ren mian tao hua [Peach Blossom Beauty] by Ge Fei, 格非]()
人面桃花 (江南三部曲) / Ren mian tao hua [Peach Blossom Beauty] by Ge Fei, 格非
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPeach Blossom Beauty won the 9th Mao Dun Literary Prize in 2015. This is the first of the "Face and Peach Blossom" trilogy. It is about a legend life of a village girl called Xiu Mi. It is an immediate hit after publishment. It combines the modern spirits with the traditional culture...Categorized as:
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![The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston]()
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Wayne Johnston
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA mystery and a love story spanning five decades, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is an epic portrait of passion and ambition, set against the beautiful, brutal landscape of Newfoundland...Categorized as:
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![Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams by Elias Khoury]()
Gate of the Sun: Bab Al-Shams by Elias Khoury
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDrawing on the stories he gathered from refugee camps over the course of many years, Elias Khoury's epic novel Gate of the Sun has been called the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga.Yunes, an aging Palestinian freedom fighter, lies in a coma. Keeping vigil at the old man's bedside is his spiritual son, Khalil, who nurses Yunes, refusing to admit that his hero may never regain consciousness... -
![The Stockwell Letters by Jacqueline Friedland]()
The Stockwell Letters by Jacqueline Friedland
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom USA Today best-selling and multi-award-winning author Jacqueline Friedland comes a gripping work of fiction based on the true story of female abolitionist Ann Phillips and her connection to Anthony Burns, a young man who briefly escaped American slavery and rocked the nation with his astoundingly heroic story...Categorized as:
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![The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni]()
The Bleeding of the Stone by Ibrahim al-Koni
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles... -
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![An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman]()
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Jewish immigrant, a Cherokee woman, and a black slave find love, friendship, and redemption in the midst of the tragedy of the Trail of Tears Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy, Jew-hating streets of East London in search of a better life... -
![The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera]()
The House of Hunger by Dambudzo Marechera
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoint winner of The Guardian Fiction Prize, this book is a collection of stories about growing up in Rhodesia... -
![Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry]()
Mother of Strangers by Suad Amiry
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSet in Jaffa in 1947-51, this fable-like novel is a heartbreaking tale of young love during the beginning of the destruction of Palestine and displacement of its people. At times darkly humorous and ironic but also profoundly moving, this novel based on a true story, follows the lives of a gifted 15-year-old mechanic, Subhi, and 13-year-old Shams, a peasant girl he hopes to marry one day... -
![Benevolence by Julie Janson]()
Benevolence by Julie Janson
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor perhaps the first time in novel form, Benevolence presents an important era in Australia’s history from an Aboriginal perspective. Told through the fictional characterisation of Darug woman Muraging (Mary James), Benevolence is a compelling story of first contact...Categorized as:
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![Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette]()
Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo’s magisterial Beyond the Rice Fields delves into the upheavals of the nation’s past as it confronted Christianity and modernity, through the twin narratives of a slave and his master’s daughter.Fara and her father’s slave, Tsito, have been close since her father bought the boy after his forest village was destroyed... -
![The Lovers of Algeria: A Novel by Anouar Benmalek, Joanna Kilmartin]()
The Lovers of Algeria: A Novel by Anouar Benmalek, Joanna Kilmartin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA breathless story of love and survival in war-torn Algeria-past and present The devil has entered our country, and his footprints are everywhere. Nine-year-old Jallal is old enough to know that his life in Algeria is precarious at best. Having run away from home, he survives by selling peanuts and single cigarettes on the street... -
![Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, رانيا مأمون]()
Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, رانيا مأمون
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Months of Sunrise is a collection of stories by the author, journalist, and activist, Rania Mamoun. Rania was featured in previous PEN Award winning project, The Book of Khartoum, the first ever anthology of Sudanese short fiction in translation. The stories in this collection have been translated from Arabic into English for the first time, by translator Elisabeth Jacquette... -
![The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao]()
The Lotus and the Storm by Lan Cao
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA lyrical novel of love and betrayal in the aftermath of the fall of Saigon—from the author of Monkey Bridge A singular work of witness, inspiration, and courage, The Lotus and the Storm marks the welcome return of Lan Cao’s pitch-perfect voice, telling the story only she can tell...Categorized as:
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![The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah]()
The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA railway freight clerk in Ghana attempts to hold out against the pressures that impel him toward corruption in both his family and his country. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the novel that catapulted Ayi Kwei Armah into the limelight. The novel is generally a satirical attack on the Ghanaian society during Kwame Nkrumah’s regime and the period immediately after independence in the 1960s... -
![Little Suns by Zakes Mda]()
Little Suns by Zakes Mda
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratings‘There are many suns,’ he said. ‘Each day has its own. Some are small, some are big. I’m named after the small ones.’It is 1903. A lame and frail Malangana – ‘Little Suns’ – searches for his beloved Mthwakazi after many lonely years spent in Lesotho...Categorized as:
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![The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]()
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory. The tales of journeys and returns, of error, of loss and recovery, all resound with Divakaruni's unique understanding of the human spirit.From acclaimed and beloved author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni comes a new collection of moving stories about family, culture, and the seduction of memory... -
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Mecca by Susan Straight
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom the National Book Award finalist Susan Straight, Mecca is a stunning epic tracing the intertwined lives of native Californians fighting for life and landJohnny Frías has California in his blood. A descendant of the state’s Indigenous people and Mexican settlers, he has Southern California’s forgotten towns and canyons in his soul...Categorized as:
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Manituana by Wu Ming
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1775—The conflict between the British Empire and the American colonies erupts in all-out war. Rebels and loyalists to the British Crown compete for an alliance with the Six Nations of the Iroquois, the most powerful Indian confederation, boasting a constitution hundreds of years old. In the Mohawk River Valley, Native Americans and colonists have co-existed for generations... -
![Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah]()
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and is rescued by Hassanali, a shopkeeper whose beautiful sister Rehana nurses Pearce back to health. Pearce and Rehana begin a passionate illicit love affair, which resonates fifty years later when the narrator’s brother falls madly in love with Rehana’s granddaughter...Categorized as:
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![Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez]()
Blood of the Dawn by Claudia Salazar Jiménez
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBlood of the Dawn follows three women whose lives intertwine and are ripped apart during what's known as "the time of fear" in Peruvian history when the Shining Path militant insurgency was at its peak. The novel rewrites the conflict through the voice of women, activating memory through a mixture of politics, desire, and pain in a lucid and brutal prose...Categorized as:
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![The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover]()
The Last Man in Europe by Dennis Glover
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsApril, 1947. In a run-down farmhouse on a remote Scottish island, George Orwell begins his last and greatest work: Nineteen Eighty-Four...Categorized as:
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