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First Published:
Sep 2008, 336 pages
Paperback:
Sep 2009, 336 pages
Book Reviewed by:
Sarah Sacha Dollacker
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About This GuideSuggested Reading
Feryal Ali Gauhar, No Space for Further Burials;
Karmi Ghada, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story;
Philip Hensher, The Mulberry Empire;
Yasmina Khadra, The Swallows of Kabul;
Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns;
Francesca Marciano, The End of Manners;
James Meek, We Are Now Beginning Our Descent;
Rory Stewart, The Places in Between.
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