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by Jason Wallace
Published Dec 2011
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by Samuel Shimon
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsAn exciting collection of the best new writing from the Arab world, by thirty-nine writers under thirty-nine.
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.
by Faïza Guène
Published Jul 2006
Read ReviewsDoria, 15, is growing up in the rough Paris immigrant public housing projects. She sets her dreams against the grim daily struggle of her life: "It's like a film script. . . . trouble is, our scriptwriter's got no talent. And he's never heard of happily ever after."
by Jhumpa Lahiri
Published Sep 2004
Read ReviewsLahiri enriches the themes that made her collection, The Interpreter of Maladies, an international bestseller: the immigrant experience, the clash of cultures, the conflicts of assimilation and, most poignantly, the tangled ties between generations.
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.
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