A Flutter in the Colony
By: Sandeep Ray
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of…
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1. A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
By: Abir Mukherjee
3.91
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B019CGXRZM The winner of the Harvill Secker/Daily Telegraph crim… read more
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- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
2. An Artist of the Floating World
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.77
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
3. The Face: Strangers on a Pier
By: Tash Aw
3.87
Format: 411 pages,
LA TimesBook Prize Finalist: The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose "Tash Aw's … read more
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4. The House with a Thousand Stories
By: Aruni Kashyap
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
It is 2002 and young Pablo, a city boy who has mostly lived a sheltered and privileged life in Guwa… read more
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5. The Good Doctor
By: Damon Galgut
4.62
Format: None pages,
The internationally acclaimed novel, is the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at … read more
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- fiction
6. The Dew Breaker
By: Edwidge Danticat
3.55
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A brilliant, deeply moving work of fiction that explores the world of a "dew breaker"--a torturer--… read more
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7. Greek Lessons
By: Han Kang
3.47
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A powerful novel about the saving grace of language and human connection, from the author of the In… read more
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- fiction
"If snow is the silence that falls from the sky, perhaps rain is an endless sentence."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Si tomamos como cierta la premisa que dice que, cuando perdemos algo, ganamos otra cosa, ¿Qué es lo que he ganado yo al perderte a ti?."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"Before she lost words - when she was still able to se them to write - she sometimes wished that her own expressions would more closely resemble inarticulacy: a moan or low cry."-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
"To her, there was no touch as instantaneous and intuitive as the gaze. It was close to being the only way of touching without touch. Language, by comparison, is an infinitely more physical way to tou…"-Han Kang, Greek Lessons
8. Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
By: Margaret Atwood
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of … read more
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- fiction
"Many things get broken in a war."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Holiness is a form of monstrosity"-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"Many obscure women have been done to death merely for existing."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
"They're dead now. A thing that happens increasingly: people die."-Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories
9. As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
By: Zoulfa Katouh
4.50
Format: 417 pages, Hardcover
Salama Kassab was a pharmacy student when the cries for freedom broke out in Syria. She still had h… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Bury me before I bury you" I did."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"There are enough people hurting you,"-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"I’ll make it as soon as I’m done with this."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
"He bites his lip. “Please take of yourself."-Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow
10. The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
By: Zoraida Córdova
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry n… read more
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- fiction
"When she’d met Orquidea Montoya, she saw a whisper of a girl who wanted to become a scream."-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
"People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you we…"-Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina
11. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
12. Haven
By: Emma Donoghue
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the s… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Fog makes an island of every man."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"To travel is to turn the pages of the great book of life."-Emma Donoghue, Haven
"Cormac’s distracted by a slopping sound under the slats. He keeps talking to soothe his nerves. ‘Here’s a saying I’ve heard but don’t understand: Never turn your back on the ocean.’ ‘Even on a calm d…"-Emma Donoghue, Haven
13. At Night All Blood is Black
By: David Diop
3.82
Format: 145 pages, Hardcover
Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting a… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"La nuit, tous les sangs sont noirs."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Temporary madness, in war, is bravery's sister."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"Laughter brings laughter and smiles bring smiles."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
"God's truth, each thing carries its opposite within."-David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black
14. The Book of Everlasting Things
By: Aanchal Malhotra
4.16
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more
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- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
16. What You Are Looking For Is in the Library
By: Michiko Aoyama
4.09
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
For fans of The Midnight Library and Before the Coffee Gets Cold, this charming Japanese novel show… read more
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- fiction
17. The Daughters of Madurai
By: Rajasree Variyar
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The Daughters of Madurai is both a heartrending family story and a page-turning mystery about the s… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
18. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
19. Sankofa
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.85
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781646220830. Masterful in its examination of freedom, prejudic… read more
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- fiction
"Rotten eggs that will never hatch"-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Even now after all he’s done, I’m still waiting for his attention."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
"Not even crocodiles eat their young...papa takes care of his children."-Chibundu Onuzo, Sankofa
20. How Beautiful We Were
By: Imbolo Mbue
3.95
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers, comes a sweeping, … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"But my father used to say we can’t do only what we’re at ease with, we must do what we ought to do."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"much of the suffering in the world was because of those who had forgotten that they too were once children."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"Only with him did I come to realize how much noise there is in the world, and how marvelous it is not to be a part of it."-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
"... if everyone only did what they ought to do, who would do the things no one thought they had to do? What did enjoyment have to do with duty?"-Imbolo Mbue, How Beautiful We Were
21. Intimacies
By: Katie Kitamura
3.65
Format: 225 pages, Hardcover
A novel from the author of A Separation, a taut and electrifying story about a woman caught between… read more
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- fiction
"I thought—I want to go home. I want to be in a place that feels like home. Where that was, I did not know."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I had lived with my slow-moving grief for so long that I had ceased to notice it, or recognize how it blunted my feeling."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"This was done for obvious reasons, there were great chasms beneath words, between two or sometimes more languages, that could open up without warning."-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
"I realized, belatedly, that she had likely applied the makeup for Adriaan’s sake; certainly she had not done so for mine. I wondered then what it was like to be a man, so often surrounded by such del…"-Katie Kitamura, Intimacies
22. The Startup Wife
By: Tahmima Anam
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Newlyweds Asha and Cyrus build an app that replaces religious rituals and soon find themselves runn… read more
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- fiction
23. Beasts of a Little Land
By: Juhea Kim
4.01
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink o… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"If you really love someone you say goodbye without ever leaving."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"The sky was white and the earth was black, like at the beginning of time before the first sunrise."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"Jade felt that they each would have only half a life, a single wing, which would not be truly complete unless they stood together side by side."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
"But he thought that his father and mother were up there somewhere, that he didn't come into this world alone, and so was reminded why he must keep surviving as best he can..."-Juhea Kim, Beasts of a Little Land
24. Best of Friends
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.46
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Home Fire comes the moving and surprising story of a lifelong friendsh… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Perhaps friendship was not only about what you said to each other, but also about what you didn't"-Kamila Shamsie, Best of Friends
25. All the Lives We Never Lived
By: Anuradha Roy
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
“In my childhood, I was known as the boy whose mother had run off with an Englishman.” So begins… read more
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- india
- fiction
- historical fiction
"I am of a temperament that needs the written word. For anything to have meaning, it has to be set down, it must live on paper before it is fully alive in my head. It has to be a series of words in a …"-Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived
"Sometimes I take my glasses off to see differently from other people. Colours and words swim into each other, meanings change on the page. In the distance, everything becomes a pastel blur. There is …"-Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived
"As a child, I would place my back against one of our trees and feel its reassuring solidity, its immobility. It was not going to move, it would never go anywhere, it was rooted to its spot. For as lo…"-Anuradha Roy, All the Lives We Never Lived
26. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
27. Girl in White Cotton
By: Avni Doshi
3.35
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more
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- india
- fiction
28. 912 Batu Road
By: Viji Krishnamoorthy
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The Iyers' and the Tans tranquil lives are shattered with the Japanese invasion of Malaya, and an u… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
29. Lahore (The Partition Trilogy #1)
By: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
In the months leading up to independence, in Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai Patel are enga… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Kashmir and Hyderabad were the two apples of princely India that were the rosiest, and on the thorniest branch too."-Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Lahore (The Partition Trilogy #1)
30. Hyderabad (The Partition Trilogy, #2)
By: Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
4.18
Format: None pages, None
Mir Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, is the Nizam of Hyderabad, the largest Princely State of the Crow… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
31. A Flutter in the Colony
By: Sandeep Ray
3.99
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
In 1956, the Senguptas travel from Calcutta to rural Malaya to start afresh. In their new hamlet of… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
