The Death of Comrade President
By: Alain Mabanckou
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize, this poignant and riotous tale starts as a tender, wr…
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1. Friends and Heroes (Balkan Trilogy, #3)
By: Olivia Manning
4.08
Format: 218 pages, Audiobook
'So glittering is the overall parade - and so entertaining the surface - that the trilogy remains e… read more
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- historical
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- historical fiction
"This was a world in which only the ignorant could be happy."-Olivia Manning, Friends and Heroes (Balkan Trilogy, #3)
2. The Refugees
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
3.87
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two g… read more
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- historical
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"Her routine was as predictable as the rotation of the earth."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"But what does one say to a ghost, except to ask why he was here? I was afraid of the answer, so instead I said, 'What took you so long?"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"I had seen Star Wars a dozen times on video tape, and if anyone was so deprived as to have not watched it even once, then the country in which he lived surely needed a revolution."-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
"Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had…"-Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Refugees
3. The River Between
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.79
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The River Between explores life on the Makuyu and Kameno ridges of Kenya in the early days of white… read more
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- africa
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4. Threads: From the Refugee Crisis
By: Kate Evans
4.02
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has… read more
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- france
5. Voci
By: Dacia Maraini
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Una porta spalancata, un paio di scarpe da tennis azzurre appaiate, un acuto odore di disinfettante… read more
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- fiction
6. Netherland
By: Joseph O'Neill
3.71
Format: 160 pages,
In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans - a banker originally from the… read more
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7. Manon Lescaut
By: Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles , Leonard Tancock , None
4.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
"'The sweetness of her glance - or rather, my evil star already in its ascendant and drawing me to … read more
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8. The Autumn of the Patriarch
By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa
3.87
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
One of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's most intricate and ambitious works, The Autumn of the Patriarch is … read more
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"honeyed by the breezes of love"-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"fear of death is the amber of happiness"-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"...el miedo a la muerte es el rescoldo de la felicidad..."-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
"Sabía que estaba condenado sin remedio a no morir de amor."-Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
9. Cloudstreet
By: Tim Winton
3.93
Format: 512 pages,
Hailed as a classic, Tim Winton's masterful family saga is both a paean to working-class Australian… read more
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10. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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- africa
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
11. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
By: Erika Fatland
4.28
Format: 477 pages, Hardcover
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more
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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
12. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- african literature
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- contemporary
- novels
- adult
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
13. A Bookshop In Algiers
By: Kaouther Adimi
3.70
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
'If you're in a bookshop browsing, then A Bookshop In Algiers is for you, by definition. A beautifu… read more
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14. Lean Fall Stand
By: Jon McGregor
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Reservoir 13, this thrilling new novel of an Antarct… read more
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15. A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
By: Milan Kundera
4.25
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the p… read more
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16. Huaco retrato
By: Gabriela Wiener
3.89
Format: 170 pages, Paperback
La muerte de su padre y los fantasmas de su herencia marcan el retorno de Wiener con esta exploraci… read more
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17. Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora
By: Maryse Condé
3.90
Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition
No es fácil vivir entre dos mundos, y la niña Maryse lo sabe. En casa, en la isla caribeña de Guada… read more
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18. Golpes de luz
By: Ledicia Costas
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Julia es periodista, acaba de separarse y decide dejar atrás Madrid y regresar a su pueblo, en Gali… read more
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19. Maddi y las fronteras
By: Edurne Portela
4.24
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
Una tarde de otoño de 2021 Edurne Portela recibe una llamada en la que le ofrecen una serie de docu… read more
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20. The Death of Comrade President
By: Alain Mabanckou
3.57
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize, this poignant and riotous tale starts as a tender, wr… read more
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- african literature
- adult
- republic of the congo
21. Tiempos feroces (Spanish Edition)
By: Leonardo Padrón
4.07
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
Una visión dickensiana de la sociedad venezolana, en cuanto a lo dura que es la existencia en el pa… read more
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