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Genre: Fiction
Literary Fiction - 251
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Books in Translation - 19
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East Asia (except China) - 14
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Eastern Africa - 8
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  • The House of Doors
    Tan Twan Eng
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, ...
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    Yoko Tawada
    Paperback: 10/01/2024
     
    On the heels of Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada's new and irresistible Suggested in the ...
  • King of the Armadillos
    Wendy Chin-Tanner
    Paperback: 09/17/2024
     
    A transcendent debut novel about family, love, and belonging, set against the backdrops of 1950s New York City...
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    Dinaw Mengestu
    Hardcover: 07/30/2024
     
    The son of Ethiopian immigrants seeks to understand a hidden family history and uncovers a past colored by ...
  • The Coin
    The Coin: A Novel
    Yasmin Zaher
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    A bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City ...
  • The Anthropologists
    Aysegül Savas
    Hardcover: 07/09/2024
     
    Asya and Manu are looking at apartments, envisioning their future in a foreign city. What should their life ...
  • Roman Stories
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    Paperback: 06/18/2024
     
    The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author and master of the form since her ...

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