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A Novel
by Monica Ali
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by Diana Evans
Published Sep 2006
Read ReviewsA hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams.
by Kiran Desai
Published Aug 2006
Read ReviewsIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives an embittered old judge who wants to retire in peace, then his orphaned granddaughter, Sai, arrives on his doorstep. When a Nepalese insurgency in the mountains causes their lives to descend into chaos, they too are forced to confront their colliding interests. Winner of the ...
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 Andre Dubus III
Published Feb 2000
Read ReviewsThree fragile yet determined people become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis. A devastating exploration of the American Dream gone awry.
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