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From Germany's #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh comes the first real corona novel, which takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the social and very private...

By the Colombian author of The Bitch, a 2020 National Book Award Finalist and PEN Awards Winner Claudia is an impressionable eight-year-old girl, trying to understand the world through the eyes of...

The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind...

This moving novel gives voice to the silent grief of the mothers of stillborn children The young free-spirited florist Frieda grew up in a strictly Catholic environment in the 1960s. When she steps...

In this literary thriller, two friends, born in the 1980s, seek to understand the experiences of their parents and grandparents during one of the most turbulent periods in Chinese history and the...

Winner of the 2017 European Union Prize for Literature for readers of Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri When young Minnie is orphaned, the Campanis family decides to...

Em's nineteen years old and pregnant. Her boyfriend Pablo has gone out "to take care of something" and hasn't returned. Her mother, who raised Emily alone, moves into the little apartment to help...

Fowl Eulogies is an absurd fairy tale for the ethical carnivore, fiction of perfect madness, of brutal and unprecedented humor. From the meadow to the supermarket, this dazzling first novel of...

A novel about getting over a broken heart without drowning in self-pity, but also a novel about language and communication, dialogue versus monologue, and community versus loneliness. ?Stavanger...

Brave, rebellious and passionate ... Yazbek is no ordinary Syrian dissident. --Financial Times "The Syrian writer Samar Yazbek evokes the horror of civil war with gripping lucidity." --Le Monde Rima,...

An emotional and unflinching story about Arab masculinity and homoeroticism Furat, a Syrian in his early 20s, visits Sibki Park in Damascus, which serves as a gathering place for gay men from all...

Cho Norie, twenty-seven and originally from Taiwan, is working an office job in Tokyo. While her colleagues worry about the economy, life-insurance policies, marriage, and children, she is forced to...

In this honest, tender account of brotherly love, thirteen-year-old Brian is tasked with caring for his disabled older brother.Author: Jaap Robben, David DohertyPublisher: World EditionsPublication...

The BitchAuthor: Dillman, LisaPublisher: World EditionsPublication Date: Aug 04, 2020Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 164286059XISBN-13: 9781642860597

After 25 years in exile, Adam travels from France to his homeland in the Middle East to bid farewell to his dying childhood friend.Author: Amin MaaloufPublisher: World EditionsPublication Date: May...

A miracle baby is born on Easter Sunday, rumored to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Cond? follows his journey in search of his origins and mission. One Easter Sunday,...

One apartment, three women, one man. One of the women is dead. When the emergency personnel arrive, they realize: Elisabeth starved to death, encouraged by her roommates. Winner of the 2021 European...

Ali, a nineteen-year-old soldier in the Syrian army, lies on the ground beneath a tree. He sees a body being lowered into a hole - is this his funeral? There was that sudden explosion, wasn't there ...