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by Nilima Rao
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Read ReviewsA charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigating a missing persons case in colonial Fiji
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Jul 2014
Read ReviewsA stunning work of fiction that brings us deep into the intertwined lives of a small seaside town where a little girl, the daughter of a fisherman, has gone missing.
by Tan Twan Eng
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsMalaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron Highlands. There she discovers Yugiri, the only Japanese garden in Malaya, and its owner and creator, the enigmatic Aritomo, exiled former gardener of the emperor of Japan.
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsSearing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Your Neck map, with Adichie's signature emotional wisdom, the collision of two cultures and the deeply human struggle to reconcile them.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsFrom the best-selling author of The Dew Breaker, a major work of nonfiction: a powerfully moving family story that centers around the men closest to Danticat's heart - her father, Mira, and his older brother, Joseph.
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 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published Sep 2007
Read ReviewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence of a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafras impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in Nigeria in the 1960s, and the chilling violence that followed.
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 Julie Otsuka
Published Oct 2003
Read ReviewsThis commanding debut novel paints a portrait of the Japanese internment camps unlike any we have ever seen. A haunting evocation of a family in wartime and an unmistakably resonant lesson for our times.
by Edwidge Danticat
Published May 1998
Read ReviewsA passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
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