Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
By: Safwan M. Masri
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian …
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1. The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
By: Hisham Matar
4.15
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From Man Booker Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Hisham Matar, a memoir of his… read more
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"What do you do when you cannot leave and cannot return?"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"The past, like a severed limb, tried to fix itself onto the body of the present."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest."-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
"Those who would later lament Seif and his father's (Qaddafi) regime are like a man who looks at the ashes and says, "I much prefer the fire"-Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
2. The Lover
By: Marguerite Duras , Barbara Bray , Maxine Hong Kingston
3.72
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of French colonial Vietnam, The Lover reveals the intimacies and intricaci… read more
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"The air was blue, you could hold it in your hand. Blue. The sky was the continual throbbing of the brilliance of the light."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is wipe things out. Replace them."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
"You didn't have to attract desire. Either it was in the woman who aroused it or it didn't exist. Either it was there at first glance or else it had never been."-Marguerite Duras, The Lover
3. Zeno's Conscience
By: Italo Svevo , William Weaver
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available i… read more
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4. The Coming of the Third Reich
By: Richard J. Evans
3.44
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's ri… read more
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5. Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
By: Daron Acemoğlu , James A. Robinson
4.08
Format: 529 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the expert… read more
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"Central planning was just not good at replacing what the great eighteenth-century economist Adam Smith called the “invisible hand"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"As mudanças graduais também impediram aventuras em territórios inexplorados. O derrube violento do sistema significa que é necessário construir algo inteiramente novo, em vez daquilo que foi eliminad…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"Sem o petróleo, os países do Médio Oriente são também todos pobres. (…) Foi a expansão e consolidação do Império Otomano, e é devido ao legado institucional desse império que o Médio Oriente continua…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
"A América do Norte tornou-se mais próspera precisamente porque adotou com entusiasmo as tecnologias e os progressos da Revolução Industrial. (…) A desigualdade no mundo atual é, em grande medida, uma…"-Daron Acemoğlu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
6. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
By: Alistair Horne
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
The Algerian War lasted from 1954 to 1962. It brought down six French governments, led to the colla… read more
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7. The Leopard
By: Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa , Archibald Colquhoun
4.01
Format: 319 pages, Paperback
The Sicilian prince Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa (1896-1957) died just after writing The Leopard, h… read more
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"While there’s death there’s hope"-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Cambiare tutto perché niente cambi."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"La eternidad amorosa dura pocos años."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
"Nothing could be decently hated except eternity."-Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard
8. The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
By: Mark Kurlansky
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, and Birdseye--the illuminating story of a… read more
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9. The Red and the Black
By: Stendhal , None
3.86
Format: 577 pages, Paperback
Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon re… read more
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"A good book is an event in my life."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"Toute vraie passion ne songe qu'a elle."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"It seems that my destiny is to die dreaming."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
"A novel is a mirror walking along a main road."-Stendhal, The Red and the Black
10. History of the Peloponnesian War
By: Thucydides , Moses I. Finley , Rex Warner
3.94
Format: 648 pages, Paperback
Written four hundred years before the birth of Christ, this detailed contemporary account of the lo… read more
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- history
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"Friendship or enmity is everywhere an affair of time and circumstance"-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Self-control is the chief element in self-respect, and self-respect is the chief element in courage."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."-Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
11. The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
By: Thomas Pakenham
4.90
Format: None pages, Paperback
White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 read more
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12. Samarkand
By: Amin Maalouf , Russell Harris
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
Accused of mocking the inviolate codes of Islam, the Persian poet and sage Omar Khayyam fortuitousl… read more
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13. A Naked Singularity
By: Sergio de la Pava
4.25
Format: 179 pages,
Casi is a hotshot public defender working on the front line of America's War on Drugs. So far he's … read more
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14. The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
By: Benjamin Lorr
3.95
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
This book is an investigation into the human lives at the heart of the American grocery store. What… read more
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- history
15. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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- islam
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
16. 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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"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
17. Blood and Oil: Mohammed bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power
By: Bradley Hope
4.26
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning Wall Street Journal reporters comes a revelatory look at the inner workings of t… read more
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18. The Other Name: Septology I-II
By: Jon Fosse
4.06
Format: 351 pages, Paperback
The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway.… read more
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"...there inside the person is what will pass away and become one with what is invisible in everything..."-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
"...what's beautiful in life turns out bad in a painting because it's like there's too much beauty, a good picture needs something bad in it in order to shine the way it should, it needs darkness in i…"-Jon Fosse, The Other Name: Septology I-II
19. The Daughters of Kobani: A Story of Rebellion, Courage, and Justice
By: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and… read more
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20. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more
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"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
21. Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly
By: Safwan M. Masri
4.11
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The Arab Spring began and ended with Tunisia. In a region beset by brutal repression, humanitarian … read more
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- tunisia
- northern africa
