The Dead Wander in the Desert
By: Rollan Seisenbayev
3.73
Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition
From Kazakhstan’s most celebrated author comes his powerful and timely English-language debut about…
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1. Of Love and Shadows
By: Isabel Allende , Margaret Sayers Peden
3.99
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Beautiful and headstrong, Irene Beltrán works as a magazine journalist—a profession that belies her… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical fiction
"Lo puedo leer en tus ojos, vienes de una noche de amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"...era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias."-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
"Tenía un pie en la ilusión obligada y otro en la realidad secreta"-Isabel Allende, Of Love and Shadows
2. Ice
By: Anna Kavan
3.67
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
In this haunting and surreal novel, the narrator and a man known as the warden search for an elusiv… read more
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- fiction
"Her albino hair illuminated my dreams, shining brighter than moonlight."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had never before met anyone who owned a telephone and believed in dragons."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"What I saw had no solidity, it was all made of mist and nylon, with nothing behind."-Anna Kavan, Ice
"I had a curious feeling that I was living on several planes simultaneously; the overlapping of these planes was confusing."-Anna Kavan, Ice
3. Primavera con una esquina rota
By: Mario Benedetti
4.83
Format: 368 pages,
Tras largos anos de destierro, Mario Benedetti no podia sino producir lo que es esta `Primavera con… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
4. By Night the Mountain Burns
By: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Jethro Soutar
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
By Night The Mountain Burnsrecounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West Africa… read more
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- fiction
5. The Tale of Aypi
By: Ak Welsapar
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ingenting ar som vanligt i den lilla fiskebyn vid Kaspiska havets kust. Myndigheterna har forbjudit… read more
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- asia
- fiction
6. Funny Boy
By: Shyam Selvadurai
4.29
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
In the world of his large family, affluent Tamils living in Colombo, Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny b… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
7. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- fiction
8. Yummah
By: None
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Khadeeja is a child who is forced into womanhood early. She is compelled to marry a man much older … read more
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9. Embers
By: Sándor Márai , Carol Brown Janeway
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
Originally published in 1942 and now rediscovered to international acclaim, this taut and exquisite… read more
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10. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
By: Carson McCullers
4.14
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, all of twe… read more
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11. The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years
By: Chingiz Aitmatov
4.57
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
..". a rewarding book." --Times Literary Supplement Set in the vast windswept Central Asian steppes… read more
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12. The Girl Who Fell to Earth
By: Sophia Al-Maria
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband's… read more
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13. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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14. El viento que arrasa
By: Selva Almada
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Un reverendo y su hija de viaje por el Chaco, en un clima de conflictos y tormentas, entreveros y c… read more
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15. Half of a Yellow Sun
By: None
3.73
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie weaves together the lives of three characters swept up in the turbulence o… read more
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16. The Ultimate Tragedy
By: Jethro Soutar , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of… read more
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17. The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
By: Shubnum Khan
3.87
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice Rebecca meets The House of Spirits in this sweeping, … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"It walked to many places in the world and swam through many seas. It moved among men and watched how they lived and how they fought. Men were the same everywhere—power-hungry creatures always engaged…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"The end always returns to the beginning; the circle always seeks to be whole, and so when the end comes for Meena Begum, she is remembering the river and the way it runs through the village like a pe…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"There are things that never see light again. They scream and bang at their fate, hoping they will be discovered. A forgotten letter beneath a file, an ivory button in a couch, a handprint against a w…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
"She tries to lie still, but she's forgotten how. On the farm everything had been still. The silence was a complete thing. She could touch it with her fingers, taste it with her mouth, and sit in it l…"-Shubnum Khan, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years
18. How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House
By: Cherie Jones
3.69
Format: 278 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel in the tradition of Zadie Smith and Marlon James, from a brilliant Caribbean writer, … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
19. The Mountains Sing
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.32
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
With the epic sweep of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko or Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the lyrical beauty of Va… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
"As long as I have my voice, I am still alive."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Whenever humans failed us, it was nature who could help save us."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"Being a mother is never easy... It’s about failing, learning, and then failing again."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
"History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, The Mountains Sing
20. The Mermaid of Black Conch
By: Monique Roffey
3.89
Format: 187 pages, Paperback
In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn't ex… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"The sea was the giant woman of the planet, fluid and contrary."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"Womanhood was a dangerous business if you didn't get it right."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"It was the magic that music makes, the song that lives within every creature on earth, including mermaids."-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
"Life change quick boy. Another planet so. Later I saw that change came as change always comes, from a chain of events with a long history, too long to see from back to front, till it come"-Monique Roffey, The Mermaid of Black Conch
21. The Desert and the Drum
By: Mbarek Ould Beyrouk
3.88
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
The Desert and the Drum is the first novel ever to be translated into English from Mauritania. It w… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
22. Hard by a Great Forest
By: Leo Vardiashvili
3.90
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more
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- russia
- fiction
- historical fiction
23. Celestial Bodies
By: Jokha Alharthi
3.41
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who marries after a heartbre… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Laughter looks so disgusting sometimes."-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"Como nos sentimos livres, quando já não nos limitamos a ser uma extensão ou uma personificação da fantasia de outra pessoa, mesmo que essa pessoa seja o nosso pai."-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"I could not believe how much pain was crackling through the air, generated simply by Mayya's being there. Haloes of light embraced that presence. If I were to just put my hand out, I felt, I could to…"-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
"Não tinhas a mínima noção do que é o amor, Mayya? Não sentiste nada do que eu passei enquanto andava à volta da tua casa como um peregrino em volta da Caaba, uma, duas, sete vezes? Como pôde a casa t…"-Jokha Alharthi, Celestial Bodies
24. I the Supreme
By: Augusto Roa Bastos
3.88
Format: 433 pages, Paperback
Latin America has seen, time and again, the rise of dictators, Supreme Leaders possessed of the dre… read more
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- historical fiction
"The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words."-Augusto Roa Bastos, I the Supreme
"Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible."-Augusto Roa Bastos, I the Supreme
"Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false."-Augusto Roa Bastos, I the Supreme
"To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real."-Augusto Roa Bastos, I the Supreme
25. A Disappearance in Fiji
By: Nilima Rao
3.89
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more
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- historical fiction
26. The Bread the Devil Knead
By: Lisa Allen-Agostini
4.03
Format: 277 pages, ebook
Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a bout… read more
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- fiction
"And what is love? I human, I have feelings. I with the man. Of course I love him. Yet, the way he love me does make me hate myself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Is not that I vain. I does think of it as an investment. If you had a nice car, ent you would take care of it? Depreciation is a hell of a thing."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"Tell the truth, I was fed up with the house, fed up with the licks. Fed up with Leo and him blaming me for everything. But you ever find yourself down in a canal? It hard to climb out by yourself."-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
"But people does get on like if you, as a woman who have no man, you not good enough, like you's not a real woman. So if is either stay with a asshole or have no man at all, I rather stay with a assho…"-Lisa Allen-Agostini, The Bread the Devil Knead
27. Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter (Volume 80) (Sun Tracks)
By: Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner
4.50
Format: 81 pages, Paperback
As the seas rise, the fight intensifies to save the Pacific Ocean’s Marshall Islands from being dev… read more
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28. The Dead Wander in the Desert
By: Rollan Seisenbayev
3.73
Format: 478 pages, Kindle Edition
From Kazakhstan’s most celebrated author comes his powerful and timely English-language debut about… read more
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- russia
- kazakhstan
- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
29. An Impossible Return
By: Caroline Laurent
4.19
Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition
Winner of the Prix Maison de la Presse An epic love story set against a backdrop of injustice, d… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
30. The Fallen Stones: Chasing Butterflies, Discovering Mayan Secrets, and Looking for Hope Along the Way
By: Diana Marcum
4.05
Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition
On a butterfly farm in the Maya Mountains, a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of the na… read more
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31. An Unlasting Home
By: Mai Al-Nakib
4.08
Format: 380 pages, Hardcover
The debut novel from an award-winning short story writer: a multigenerational saga spanning Lebanon… read more
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- fiction
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