A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir
By: Ather Zia
4.28
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and Indi…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Interestingly, even though Kashmiris had been burdened by centuries of slavery, they had a resilient spirit and a long history of resistance."-Ather Zia, A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir
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1. South of the Border, West of the Sun
By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel
3.86
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
Alternate cover edition here. Growing up in the suburbs of post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime t… read more
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"Is that what you see in my eyes, that you know nothing about me?"-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"Loving her, and being loved, was the only way I could hold myself together."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
"What we needed were not words and promises but the steady accumulation of small realities."-Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
2. The Namesake
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.11
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladiesestablished this young writer as one the most brilliant of h… read more
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3. Kashmir: A Case of Freedom
By: Tariq Ali
4.39
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
At home, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for justice and self-determination is as much ignored … read more
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4. Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora?: The Story of a Mass Rape
By: None , Essar Batool , Natasha Rather , None , None , Samreena Mushtaq
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian army stormed into … read more
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5. Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
By: Malik Sajad
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young … read more
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6. The Prophet
By: Kahlil Gibran
4.01
Format: 511 pages, Paperback
Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more
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7. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
By: Rahul Pandita
3.43
Format: 375 pages,
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more
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8. The Country Without a Post Office
By: Agha Shahid Ali
4.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Translucent elegies 'for the city that is leaving forever' (Srinagar) from one of its sons, who al… read more
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9. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
10. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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11. I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
By: None , Chi-Young Kim
4.06
Format: None pages, Paperback
I don't encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out… read more
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12. The God of Small Things
By: Arundhati Roy
3.96
Format: 321 pages, Paperback
The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more
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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
13. Curfewed Night
By: Basharat Peer
0.00
Format: 126 pages, Hardcover
Basharat Peer's powerful memoir about growing up in war-torn Kashmir. read more
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14. Exit West
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.00
Format: 146 pages, Hardcover
In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more
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16. The White Tiger
By: Aravind Adiga
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more
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17. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
18. The Vegetarian
By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith
4.00
Format: 204 pages,
Before the nightmare, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary life. But when splintering, blood… read more
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19. All the Lovers in the Night
By: Mieko Kawakami
3.72
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city wher… read more
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"It only took me a couple of hours to realise that she was a woman of talents beyond anything I could imagine - even though I was a stranger to such talents myself."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"The light at night is special because the overwhelming light of day has left us, and the remaining half draws on everything it has to keep the world around us bright."-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
"When I felt sleepy I slept, and when I opened my eyes I got up, letting hunger dictate when to head to the fridge or kitchen cabinet to eat some of the things that I'd stocked up on. When supplies ra…"-Mieko Kawakami, All the Lovers in the Night
20. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
21. Hurricane Season
By: Fernanda Melchor
4.06
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A New York Times Notable Book (2020) A Guardian Best Book of 2020 A Literary Hub Favorite Book of… read more
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"а разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"за разнообразие и за да не губи навик, баба, когато е ядосана, си спомня само за лошите неща"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"There's no reasoning with dog, two ferocious dogs who refuse to let go of their prey until they've been torn to shreds"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
"момчето, щом порасна, се превърна в диво животно, което, пуснеха ли го на свобода, дори по никое време вечер, все го теглеше към гората, защото според баба ѝ този бил начинът да възпитават момчетата,…"-Fernanda Melchor, Hurricane Season
22. Elena Knows
By: Claudia Piñeiro
4.08
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more
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"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows
23. Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories
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3.74
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It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six? Diary of a M… read more
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"People want to understand evil. A pointless desire. Evil is like a rainbow. It retreats at the same pace as your approach. Evil is evil because you can't understand it."-Young-ha Kim, Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories
24. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
25. Azadi
By: Arundhati Roy
4.10
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more
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"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"-Arundhati Roy, Azadi
26. The Reluctant Fundamentalist
By: Mohsin Hamid
3.73
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more
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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
27. The Trees
By: Percival Everett
4.06
Format: 309 pages, Paperback
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more
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"Unknown Male is a name,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"-Percival Everett, The Trees
"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."-Percival Everett, The Trees
28. The Hacienda
By: Isabel Cañas
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the… read more
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"Colonialism carved the landscapes of our homes with ghosts, It left gaping wounds that still weep"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Of course he did not question. Men do not trouble themselves with women's bodies, save when they can be of use to serve or to sate them."-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
"Instead, he described the way the sun set in the valley of Apan: first rich golden, deepening to amber, and then, with a swift, sure strike, night overtook the sun like the extinguishing of a candle.…"-Isabel Cañas, The Hacienda
29. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
30. A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir
By: Ather Zia
4.28
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The accession of Kashmir to the Indian Union in 1947 had raised objections both in Kashmir and Indi… read more
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- nonfiction
- india
- history
"Interestingly, even though Kashmiris had been burdened by centuries of slavery, they had a resilient spirit and a long history of resistance."-Ather Zia, A Desolation Called Peace: Voices from Kashmir
31. The Dirty War in Kashmir: The Frontline Reports of Shujaat Bukhari
By: Syed Shujaat Bukhari
3.85
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
Shujaat Bukhari was one of the most vital, balanced and well-informed voices in Kashmir. Perhaps fo… read more
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