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New Writing from the Arab World
by Samuel Shimon
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by Kim Barnes
Published Feb 2013
Read ReviewsFrom the PEN USA Award-winning author of A Country Called Home, a richly imagined new novel about a young woman who leaves the dusty farmland of 1960s Oklahoma to follow her husband to the oil fields of Saudi Arabia and finds a world of wealth, glamour, American privilege, and corruption.
by Amos Oz
Published Sep 2012
Read ReviewsA portrait of a fictional village, by one of the world's most admired writers.
by Randa Jarrar
Published Aug 2009
Read ReviewsNidali narrates the story of her childhood in Kuwait, her teenage years in Egypt, and her familys last flight to Texas, offering a humorous, sharp but loving portrait of an eccentric middle-class family.
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 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 Azar Nafisi
Published Dec 2003
Read ReviewsNafisis luminous tale offers a fascinating portrait of the Iran-Iraq war viewed from Tehran and gives us a rare glimpse, from the inside, of womens lives in revolutionary Iran.
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