11 best-selling novels books like The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

Cover of The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

The Book of Disappearance

By: Ibtisam Azem

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What if all Palestinians vanished from their homeland overnight? Alaa, a young Palestinian, is h…

"Un diritto non è perso finché c'è qualcuno che lo rivendica..." (traduzione di Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

"Un diritto non è perso finché c'è qualcuno che lo rivendica..." (traduzione di Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

"يا ليتك معي، فالشوق إليك كوردة من شوك. Quanto vorrei che tu fossi qui con me. La nostalgia di te è una rosa di spine. (tr. Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

"يا ليتك معي، فالشوق إليك كوردة من شوك. Quanto vorrei che tu fossi qui con me. La nostalgia di te è una rosa di spine. (tr. Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

If you liked the novels plot in The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh, Trevor Le Gassick, Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

1. Wild Thorns

By: Sahar Khalifeh , Trevor Le Gassick , Elizabeth Warnock Fernea

3.83

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A young Palestinian named Usama returns from working in the Gulf to support the resistance movement… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • israel
  • literature
  • fiction
  • novels
"هذا الجيل قوي ، متوقد ، صلب كالصوان، رغم قده الممشوق كعود الخيزران. وتذكرها. كتبها، وسبابتها المرفوعة بالغبار، وقامتها النحيلة الضامرة. قالت : - الأقوياء لا يطأطئون."

-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns

" لماذا توجعنا الأغاني الحزينة ؟ ألأننا شعب رومانسي؟ ولم يكن هو رومانسياً. لم يعد كذلك. أو هكذا بات يعتقد. كيف توصل إلى هذي النتيجة؟ تدريب. طلقات. زحف على البطون. شدّ البطون. ويصبح الإنسان لارومانسي الف…"

-Sahar Khalifeh, Wild Thorns

Cover of Sangre en el Ojo by Lina Meruane

2. Sangre en el Ojo

By: Lina Meruane

3.18

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

"Sin ti me moriria" ?es una frase retorica? Decir: <>?compromete a quien lo dice? Esta es la histor… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. Space Invaders

By: Nona Fernández , Jaime Pinos

4.03

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. Ten Myths about Israel

By: Ilan Pappé

4.03

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more

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5. Mamut

By: Eva Baltasar

3.58

Format: 148 pages, Paperback

La protagonista de Mamut és una dona arcaica atrapada en la vida moderna. El seu medi és la ciutat,… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Dalla stessa parte mi troverai by Valentina Mira

6. Dalla stessa parte mi troverai

By: Valentina Mira

4.01

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

Questa storia comincia una sera d’inverno, il 7 gennaio 1978. Davanti a una sede del Movimento soci… read more

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Cover of Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad

7. Enter Ghost

By: Isabella Hammad

4.09

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of Wild Houses by Colin  Barrett

8. Wild Houses

By: Colin Barrett

3.78

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"

-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses

Cover of Minor Detail by Adania Shibli

9. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

Cover of My Death by Lisa Tuttle

10. My Death

By: Lisa Tuttle

3.98

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

A widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and artist—and soon uncovers bizarre p… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of My Friends by Hisham Matar

11. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

Cover of Lichtungen by Iris Wolff

12. Lichtungen

By: Iris Wolff

3.88

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

»Du hättest zurücksehen müssen, dachte er, allein um zu wissen, ob sie sich nach dir umgewandt hat.… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

13. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World

By: Antony Loewenstein

4.44

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more

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  • politics
  • israel
Cover of It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over by Anne de Marcken

14. It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

By: Anne de Marcken

3.82

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Co-winner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible life-after-death novel asks us to consider how m… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
"Fasting makes sense of the hunger. The constant internal grasping. The only sensible answer to this is to always withdraw the thing after which I grasp. To subvert. To thwart. To deny. It closes the …"

-Anne de Marcken, It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over

Cover of The Parisian by Isabella Hammad

15. The Parisian

By: Isabella Hammad

3.59

Format: 710 pages, ebook

As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinia… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"It occurred to Midhat that a tragic story told quickly might contract easily into a comedy, and without the measure of its depths make the audience laugh."

-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

"A few days afterwards, Marian announced that she was joining the volunteer nurses. She was posted at Divonne-Les-Bains on the Swiss border, and in her letters to Jeannette she described the disfigure…"

-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

"For the first time in his life, Midhat wished he were more religious. Of course he prayed, but though that was a private mechanism it sometimes felt like a public act, and the lessons of the Quran we…"

-Isabella Hammad, The Parisian

Cover of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden

16. The Safekeep

By: Yael van der Wouden

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

An exhilarating, twisted tale of desire, suspicion, and obsession between two women staying in the … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
Cover of Brat by Gabriel Smith

17. Brat

By: Gabriel Smith

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a provocative new literary talent, a hilarious and haunted novel featuring an unlikable protag… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I chose this one. This is the one I care about."

-Gabriel Smith, Brat

Cover of Held by Anne   Michaels

18. Held

By: Anne Michaels

3.66

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling… read more

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  • literature
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Who can say what happens when we are remembered?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Do we really need our own misery to teach us to be kind?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"We know life is finite. Why should we believe death lasts forever?"

-Anne Michaels, Held

"Would he know the moment of his death or would it be like night falling."

-Anne Michaels, Held

Cover of The Book of Disappearance by Ibtisam Azem

19. The Book of Disappearance

By: Ibtisam Azem

4.12

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What if all Palestinians vanished from their homeland overnight? Alaa, a young Palestinian, is h… read more

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  • literary fiction
  • magical realism
  • israel
  • literature
  • politics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • science fiction
  • novels
  • speculative fiction
"Un diritto non è perso finché c'è qualcuno che lo rivendica..." (traduzione di Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

"يا ليتك معي، فالشوق إليك كوردة من شوك. Quanto vorrei che tu fossi qui con me. La nostalgia di te è una rosa di spine. (tr. Barbara Teresi, 2021)"

-Ibtisam Azem, The Book of Disappearance

Cover of Adam by Gboyega Odubanjo

20. Adam

By: Gboyega Odubanjo

4.72

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

None read more

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21. Ungleich vereint

By: Steffen Mau

4.26

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Die Diskussion über Ostdeutschland und das Verhältnis zwischen Ost und West flammt immer wieder auf… read more

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  • politics

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3.83

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3.18

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3.58

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4.29

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4.49

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3.68

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