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by Etaf Rum
Published Feb 2020
Read Reviews"Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum's debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice." —Refinery 29
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Published Mar 2019
Read ReviewsThe first novel from Sarah Jessica Parker's new imprint, SJP for Hogarth, A Place for Us is a deeply moving and resonant story of love, identity and belonging.
by Ali Smith
Published Nov 2018
Read ReviewsSmith's shapeshifting novel casts a warm, wise, merry and uncompromising eye over a post-truth era in a story rooted in history and memory and with a taproot deep in the evergreens, art and love.
by Imbolo Mbue
Published Jun 2017
Read ReviewsOprah Winfrey's Summer 2017 Book Club Pick
In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
by Amit Chaudhuri
Published Feb 2016
Read ReviewsA beguiling new novel, at once wistful and ribald, about a day in the life of two Indian men in London, each coping in his own way with alienation, solitariness, and the very art of living.
by Zia Haider Rahman
Published Feb 2015
Read ReviewsA bold, epic debut novel set during the war and financial crisis that defined the beginning of our century.
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Jun 2014
Read ReviewsEpic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are
by NoViolet Bulawayo
Published May 2014
Read ReviewsDarling is only 10 years old, and yet she must navigate a fragile and violent world. But Darling has a chance to escape: she has an aunt in America
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Mar 2014
Read ReviewsFearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, Americanah is a richly told story set in today's globalized world.
by Dagmara Dominczyk
Published Feb 2014
Read ReviewsA vibrant, engaging debut novel that follows the friendship of three women from their youthful days in Poland to their complicated, not-quite-successful adult lives.
by Roshi Fernando
Published Jul 2013
Read ReviewsA stunning debut novel about an extended Sri Lankan family - a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary immigrant life, by turns darkly funny, sad, poignant, and uproariously beautiful.
by Nell Freudenberger
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsA powerful, funny, richly observed tour de force by one of America's most acclaimed young writers: a story of love and marriage, secrets and betrayals.
The White Woman on the Green Bicycle
by Monique Roffey
Published Apr 2011
Read ReviewsA beautifully written, unforgettable novel of a troubled marriage, set against the lush landscape and political turmoil of Trinidad
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
by Randa Jarrar
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsNidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her familys last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family.
by Tahmima Anam
Published Jan 2009
Read ReviewsSet against the backdrop of the Bangladesh War of Independence, A Golden Age is a story of passion and revolution, of hope, faith and unexpected heroism. The first volume in a planned trilogy.
by Catherine O'Flynn
Published Jun 2008
Read ReviewsA tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl - winner of the Costa First Novel Award and long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and The Guardian First Book Award
Strawberry Fields (Two Caravans)
by Marina Lewycka
Published Apr 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the author of the international bestseller A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian comes a tender and hilarious novel about a crew of migrant workers from three continents who are forced to flee their English strawberry field for a journey across all of England in pursuit of their various dreams of a better future. First published in the UK ...
by Thrity Umrigar
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsSet in modern-day India, The Space Between Us is the story of two compelling and achingly real women: Sera Dubash, an upper-middle-class Parsi housewife and Bhima, a stoic illiterate who has worked in the Dubash household for more than twenty years.
by Leila Aboulela
Published Sep 2005
Read ReviewsA lyric and insightful novel about Islam and an alluring glimpse into a culture Westerners are only just beginning to understand.
by Andrea Levy
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsA courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
by Zadie Smith
Published Jun 2001
Read ReviewsEpic and intimate, hilarious and poignant - the story of two North London families - one headed by Archie, the other by Archie's best friend, a Muslim Bengali named Samad Iqbal.
by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Published Jan 2000
Read ReviewsExceptionally moving, dramatic, and exquisitely rendered - a passionate novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the jealousies, loves, and family histories that threaten to tear them apart.
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