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by Monique Roffey
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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.
The Secret History of Costaguana
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez
Published Aug 2012
Read ReviewsTragic and despairing, comic and insightful, The Secret History of Costaguana is a masterpiece of historical invention.
by Goldie Goldbloom
Published Mar 2011
Read ReviewsSet in 1940s Australia, The Paperbark Shoe is a remarkable novel about the far-reaching repercussions of war, the subtle violence of displacement, and what it means to live as a captive - in enemy country, and in one's own skin.
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 Andrea Levy
Published Apr 2005
Read ReviewsA courageous novel of tender emotion and sparkling wit, of crossings taken and passages lost, of shattering compassion and of reckless optimism in the face of insurmountable barriers.
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.
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 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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