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Published Nov 2008
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by Dan Fesperman
Published Sep 2005
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by Yasmina Khadra
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsThis dazzling novel by one of Algeria's top writers is set in the hot, dusty streets of Kabul under Taliban rule and offers a compassionate insight into a society brought to the edge of despair by hypocrisy and violence.
by V.S. Naipaul
Published Oct 2002
Read Reviews"Naipaul's style is so frank it seems intimate ...behind the matter-of-fact style is a cuttingly ironic view of human relations...when Naipaul talks, we listen." Winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize.
by Michael Ondaatje
Published Apr 2001
Read ReviewsUnfolding against the deeply evocative background of Sri Lanka's landscape and ancient civilization, Anil's Ghost is a literary spellbinder.
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