The Backstreets
By: Perhat Tursun
3.46
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappea…
Want to Read $ 9.99"The unceasing sound of the cars was precisely the silence of the city."-Perhat Tursun, The Backstreets
"The unceasing sound of the cars was precisely the silence of the city."-Perhat Tursun, The Backstreets
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1. Girls of Riyadh
By: Rajaa Alsanea
3.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
When Rajaa Alsanea boldly chose to open up the hidden world of Saudi women—their private lives and … read more
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- asia
- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"ما اسوأ ان لا يجد الانسان تقديرا من اقرب الناس اليه"-Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh
"الحمل هو الطريقة الأضمن لاستمرار الحياة الزوجية، استمرارها لا نجاحها"-Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh
"الرجال لا يحبون دائما من يحترمون، والنساء بالعكس لايحترمن إلا من احبهن"-Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh
"قلوب تخشى الإنكسار بعد الإنكسار الأول، فتبقى في خيامها حتى تأتي يدي غريب لتصلح أوتادها"-Rajaa Alsanea, Girls of Riyadh
2. Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.23
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
“I often come to walk in these hills,” I said to the soldier…he was compact and short, not much tal… read more
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- politics
"Aku ada buku, aku tak perlukan pakaian atau sepatu khusus untuk berjalan ke perbukitan."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Ini bukan pertama kali kita kalah, tapi kini pemimpin kita meraikannya seolah kita menang. (Tentang Perjanjian Damai Oslo antara Israel-Palestin)"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Religious practice in the Land of the Bible tends to encourage exclusivity and discrimination rather than love and magnanimity. There is no place like the Holy Land to make one cynical about religion."-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
"Meskipun aku suka sekali pohon ru, kuakui mereka seperti penjajah. Merekalah bukti betapa manusia telah menelantarkan bukit ini pada kuasa alam. Warna mereka hijau gelap, tak seperti pohon zaitun yan…"-Raja Shehadeh, Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
3. A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
By: Rebecca Solnit
3.95
Format: 353 pages, Hardcover
A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the a… read more
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- politics
"Disaster shocks us out of slumber, but only skillful efforts keeps us awake."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Utopia itself is rarely more than an ideal or an ephemeral pattern on which to shape the real possibilities before us."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"Tobin James Mueller: 'No one is turned away, my one rule. I never say no. That's one of the reasons it became a utopia."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
"It's tempting to ask why if you fed your neighbors during the time of the earthquake and fire, you didn't do so before or after."-Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
4. Life and Death in Shanghai
By: Nien Cheng
4.16
Format: 347 pages, Paperback
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an o… read more
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- asia
- china
5. On Anarchism
By: Noam Chomsky
3.86
Format: 302 pages,
We all know what Noam Chomsky is against. His scathing analysis of everything that's wrong with our… read more
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- politics
6. Çocukluğun Soğuk Geceleri
By: Tezer Özlü
4.03
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Tezer Ozlu'nun bu ilk romani, yasamin yalnizca baslangicini olusturmakla kalmayan, surekli donulen,… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
7. Nie mówię żegnaj
By: Han Kang
3.77
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Zdobywczyni nagrody Man Booker Prize 2016, Han Kang, powraca po 5 latach z nową, pełnowymiarową pow… read more
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- literary fiction
- asia
- fiction
- asian literature
- novels
8. De onbedoelden
By: Cobi van Baars
3.75
Format: 159 pages, Kindle Edition
Jaren zestig in katholiek Limburg; een jonge vrouw bevalt van een tweeling. Ze is ongetrouwd en moe… read more
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- literature
- fiction
9. Tosca
By: Maud Vanhauwaert
3.96
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
In een brief aan haar uitgever legt vertaalster May uit hoe een treffend potloodportret het begin v… read more
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- literature
- fiction
10. Huiswerk
By: Marja Pruis
3.28
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Clara Feij is in het mooiste huis van Amsterdam komen wonen, vindt ze zelf. Schoonmaken laat ze ove… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
11. Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
By: Tahir Hamut Izgil
4.31
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A poet's account of one of the world's most urgent humanitarian crises, and a harrowing tale of a f… read more
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- asia
- politics
- china
"The Uyghur region was now a gigantic prison, blanketed with security forces and a biometric surveillance system unique in human history."-Tahir Hamut Izgil, Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide
12. The Backstreets
By: Perhat Tursun
3.46
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappea… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- asia
- politics
- the world
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
- china
"The unceasing sound of the cars was precisely the silence of the city."-Perhat Tursun, The Backstreets
13. Cocoon
By: Zhang Yueran
4.03
Format: 323 pages, Paperback
Cheng Gong and Li Jiaqi go way back. Both hailing from dysfunctional families, they grew up togethe… read more
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- literary fiction
- novels
- literature
- asia
- fiction
- asian literature
- china
"If the gods deal you a terrible hand, all you can do is play it as best you can."-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
"We’re born kind, but it slips away as we age. Remember how fervently we searched for the truth when we were kids?"-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
"This may be the most complicated thing about being human: acknowledging our mistakes doesn’t mean drawing a line under them; as long as we’re still drawing breath, we’ll keep facing new tests, and we…"-Zhang Yueran, Cocoon
14. What I'd Rather Not Think About
By: Jente Posthuma
3.77
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can’t live without t… read more
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- literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"Cracks in the ground aren't always visible to the naked eye. Every movement has the potential to take you down."-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"This was shocking to me, because if the oldest person I knew understood even less about the world than I did, then how was it possible that other adults had all the answers? And what was the point of…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
"To be a natural presence, you shouldn't take up too much space, which I always found easy at the beginning of a friendship. It felt nice to reshape myself into precisely the right format until the mo…"-Jente Posthuma, What I'd Rather Not Think About
15. Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
By: Matthew F. Delmont
4.53
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil righ… read more
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- politics
16. Hyperpolitik
By: Anton Jäger
3.88
Format: 140 pages, Paperback
Die Ära der Postpolitik ist vorbeiDass die Politik wieder da ist, dass Debatten um Corona oder »Wok… read more
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- politics
17. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- politics
- contemporary
18. In the Camps: China's High-Tech Penal Colony
By: Darren Byler
4.29
Format: 150 pages, Paperback
How China built a network of surveillance to detain over a million people and produce a system of c… read more
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- asia
- politics
- china
19. Mina's Matchbox
By: Yōko Ogawa
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning, psychologically astute author of The Memory Police, here is a hypnotic, int… read more
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- literary fiction
- literature
- asia
- fiction
- contemporary
- asian literature
"Quant à l'endroit où se trouvait mon père, le jour de ses funérailles, ma mère me l'avait indiqué. C'est un peu loin, mais un jour ou l'autre nous irons le rejoindre, il n'y a pas à craindre de s'éga…"-Yōko Ogawa, Mina's Matchbox
20. No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs
By: Nury Turkel
4.53
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
*Shortlisted for the Moore Prize on Human Rights Literature* A powerful memoir by Nury Turkel that… read more
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- asia
- politics
- china
21. We Uyghurs Have No Say: An Imprisoned Writer Speaks
By: İlham Tohti
4.00
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The words of China’s most famous political prisoner In Xinjiang, the large northwest region of C… read more
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- asia
- politics
- china
