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A Novel
by Marina Lewycka
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by Tash Aw
Published Sep 2020
Read ReviewsFrom the author of The Harmony Silk Factory and Five Star Billionaire, a compelling depiction of a man's act of violence, set against the backdrop of Asia in flux.
by Chris Cleave
Published Feb 2010
Read ReviewsThe publishers "don't want to spoil" the story by giving too much away - so we won't - but in brief it features a young Nigerian orphan, a well-off British couple, and the real distances in a globalized world which can be crossed in single day. Published as The Other Hand in the UK, Australia and India; and Little Bee in the USA and Canada.
The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
by Dinaw Mengestu
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsA haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa through the eyes of Sepha who, seventeen years ago, fled Ethiopia during the Revolution, and now runs a failing convenience store in a poor African-American neighborhood in Washington. Published as The Beautiful Thing That Heaven Bears in the USA, ...
by Sonia Nazario
Published Jan 2007
Read ReviewsA true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.
by Monica Ali
Published Jun 2004
Read ReviewsThis gorgeous first novel is the deeply moving story of one woman, Nazneen, born in a Bangladeshi village and transported to London at age eighteen to enter into an arranged marriage.
by Jonathan Safran Foer
Published Mar 2003
Read ReviewsLit by passion, fear, guilt, memory, and hope, the characters in Everything Is Illuminated mine the black holes of history in this exuberant and wise, hysterically funny and deeply moving debut.
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.
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