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  • The Return of Faraz Ali: A Novel
    Aamina Ahmad
    Paperback: 04/04/2023
     
    Sent back to his birthplace - Lahore's notorious red-light district - to hush up the murder of a girl, a man ...
  • Unmarriageable
    Soniah Kamal
    Paperback: 02/04/2020
     
    In this one-of-a-kind retelling of Pride and Prejudice set in modern-day Pakistan, Alys Binat has sworn never ...
  • The Bones of Grace
    Tahmima Anam
    Paperback: 06/27/2017
     
    From the award-winning, nationally bestselling author of A Golden Age and The Good Muslim comes a lyrical, ...
  • What Lies Between Us
    Nayomi Munaweera
    Paperback: 04/04/2017
     
    From Nayomi Munaweera, the award-winning author of Island of a Thousand Mirrors, comes the confession of a ...
  • An Unrestored Woman
    Shobha Rao
    Paperback: 03/14/2017
     
    The twelve paired stories in Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman trace their origins to the formation of India ...
  • Island of a Thousand Mirrors
    Nayomi Munaweera
    Paperback: 01/05/2016
     
    A stunning literary debut of two young women on opposing sides of the devastating Sri Lankan Civil War—...
  • And the Mountains Echoed
    Khaled Hosseini
    Paperback: 06/03/2014
     
    Khaled Hosseini has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the ...

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