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by Olaf Olafsson
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsThe haunting, vivid story of a nun whose past returns to her in unexpected ways, all while investigating a mysterious death and a series of harrowing abuse claims.
by Salman Rushdie
Published Sep 2013
Read ReviewsHow do a writer and his family live with the threat of murder for more than nine years? How does he go on working? How does he fall in and out of love? How does despair shape his thoughts and actions, how and why does he stumble, how does he learn to fight back? In this remarkable memoir Rushdie tells that story for the first time; the story of one...
by Lawrence Osborne
Published Jun 2013
Read ReviewsIn this stylish, haunting novel, journalist and novelist Lawrence Osborne explores the reverberations of a random accident on the lives of Moroccan Muslims and Western visitors who converge on a luxurious desert villa for a decadent weekend-long party.
by Elif Shafak
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsFrom one of Turkeys most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of two families.
by William Nicholson
Published Jan 2006
Read ReviewsWritten with the pace and thrust of a thriller, this is a stunning intellectual adventure, a moral fable bursting with art, poetry, music, and profound philosophical insight.
by Louis de Bernieres
Published Jun 2005
Read ReviewsEpic in its narrative sweep, steeped in historical fact yet profoundly humane, and dazzlingly evocative in its emotional and sensual detail. This is de Bernières' first book since Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
by Azar Nafisi
Published Dec 2003
Read ReviewsNafisis luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of womens lives in revolutionary Iran.
by Milan Kundera
Published Oct 2003
Read Reviews"Kundera is so bounteously gifted with insight that even a slender story like that of Ignorance is edifying, filled with intellectual surprises and flashes of the imagination."
by Salman Rushdie
Published Aug 2002
Read ReviewsFury is a work of explosive energy, at once a pitiless and pitch-black comedy, a profoundly disturbing inquiry into the darkest side of human nature, and a love story of mesmerizing force.
by Tomas Transtromer
Published Oct 2001
Read ReviewsA cherished and invaluable collection of the finest of Tranströmer's poems, carefully chosen and translated.
by Karen Armstrong
Published Jan 2001
Read ReviewsBrilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish.
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