Results for General Fiction + Novels + In Time of War & The Effects of War + Contemporary, set in Middle-East (West Asia)

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  • The Island of Missing Trees
    The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
    Elif Shafak
    Hardcover: 11/02/2021
     
    A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-...
  • Daughters of Smoke and Fire
    Daughters of Smoke and Fire: A Novel
    Ava Homa
    Paperback: 05/11/2021
     
    The unforgettable, haunting story of a young woman's perilous fight for freedom and justice for her brother, ...
  • The Arsonists' City
    The Arsonists' City
    Hala Alyan
    Hardcover: 03/09/2021
     
    A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of ...
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo
    The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel
    Christy Lefteri
    Paperback: 06/23/2020
     
    This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife,...
  • Red Birds
    Red Birds
    Mohammed Hanif
    Paperback: 05/14/2019
     
    A powerful novel about war, family and love, from the bestselling, prize-winning author dubbed 'Pakistan's ...
  • The Map of Salt and Stars
    The Map of Salt and Stars
    Zeyn Joukhadar
    Paperback: 03/12/2019
     
    This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of ...
  • Moon Brow
    Moon Brow
    Sara Khalili, Shahriar Mandanipour
    Paperback: 04/24/2018
     
    From "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative ...

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