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The Hakawati
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Rabih Alameddine
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 2 Jun 2009
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An inventive, exuberant novel that takes us from the shimmering dunes of ancient Egypt to the war-torn streets of twenty-first-century Lebanon. |
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America America
: A Novel
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Ethan Canin
Hardcover: Jun 2008
Paperback: 19 May 2009
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A stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young mans life. |
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Burnt Shadows
: A Novel
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Kamila Shamsie
Paperback: 27 Apr 2009
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Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man is waiting to be sent to Guantanamo Bay, Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of love and betrayal. |
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Unaccustomed Earth
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Jhumpa Lahiri
Hardcover: Apr 2008
Paperback: 14 Apr 2009
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Eight storieslonger and more emotionally complex than any Lahiri has yet writtenthat take us from Cambridge and Seattle to India and Thailand as they enter the lives of sisters and brothers, fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, friends and lovers. |
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Khaled Hosseini
Hardcover: May 2007
Paperback: 25 Nov 2008
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At once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love. |
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Bridge of Sighs
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Richard Russo
Hardcover: Sep 2007
Paperback: 9 Sep 2008
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Bridge of Sighs courses with small-town rhythms and the claims of family. Here is a town, as well as a world, defined by magnificent and nearly devastating contradictions. |
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