Beyond Babylon
By: Igiaba Scego
3.95
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriRecipient of a prestigious 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Fund GrantAn epic…
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1. A Fine Balance
By: Rohinton Mistry
4.37
Format: 603 pages, Paperback
With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more
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- literary fiction
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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"Marriage is like death, only happens once."-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance
2. Troubling Love
By: Elena Ferrante , Ann Goldstein
3.26
Format: 139 pages, Paperback
Set in Naples, Italy, this debut novel by New York Times bestselling author Elena Ferrante (My Bril… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Purple Hibiscus
By: None
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Fifteen-year-old Kambili and her older brother Jaja lead a privileged life in Enugu, Nigeria. They … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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4. Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio
By: Ann Goldstein , Amara Lakhous , عمارة لخوص
2.50
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A compelling mix of social satire and murder mystery. A small culturally mixed community living in … read more
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- italy
- literary fiction
- fiction
- italian literature
5. On Black Sisters Street
By: Chika Unigwe
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
On Black Sisters Streettells the haunting story of four very different women who have left their Af… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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- contemporary
6. Marcovaldo
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
2.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Marcovaldo is an unskilled worker in a drab industrial city in northern Italy. He is an irrepressib… read more
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- italy
- fiction
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7. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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- africa
- fiction
8. The Book of Not (Nervous Conditions, #2)
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.00
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
A sequel to Nervous Conditions, this is a powerful and engaging story about one young woman's quest… read more
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9. The Bastard of Istanbul
By: Elif Shafak
3.67
Format: 499 pages, Hardcover
From one of Turkey's most acclaimed and outspoken writers, a novel about the tangled histories of t… read more
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10. Cuando hablábamos con los muertos
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.67
Format: 499 pages,
En "Cuando hablabamos con los muertos", antologia de tres relatos que Mariana Enriquez publica en M… read more
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11. Reading Lolita in Tehran
By: Azar Nafisi
4.20
Format: 172 pages,
Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more
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12. White Teeth
By: Zadie Smith
4.53
Format: 288 pages,
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaus… read more
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13. t zero
By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver
2.60
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author bl… read more
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14. Our Lady of the Nile
By: Scholastique Mukasonga , None
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 wi… read more
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15. Niente di vero
By: Veronica Raimo
3.59
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da … read more
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- italy
- italian literature
- literary fiction
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- contemporary
"Quando finalmente arrivò la scoperta dei libri, non fu una forma di evasione, piuttosto una rasserenante coalescenza di noia. Riuscivo quasi a visualizzarla, bianca e melmosa: leggere era come sprofo…"-Veronica Raimo, Niente di vero
16. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
By: Aubrey Gordon
4.33
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more
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17. Roman Stories
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.80
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
Rome—metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical—is … read more
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- italian literature
- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
18. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
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"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
19. Jawbone
By: Mónica Ojeda
3.71
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So ho… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"Una bala que sale y luego regresa para darte en el corazón: eso es una hija."-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
" A veces me gusta imaginar que el universo es el cadáver de Dios descomponiéndose , le dijo Annelise durante una tarde de clases extra. Imagine, Miss Clara, que fuéramos solo eso: la enorme y flotant…"-Mónica Ojeda, Jawbone
20. The Promise
By: Damon Galgut
3.86
Format: 293 pages, Hardcover
The Promise , winner of the 2021 Booker Prize, charts the crash and burn of a white South African f… read more
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- historical fiction
"A smile quickly cut his face and then healed up."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Give him a taboo and he feels the need to break it."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Children still, on the verge of not being children any more."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
"Her own voice sounds echoey, as if somebody else is speaking."-Damon Galgut, The Promise
21. They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
By: Prachi Gupta
4.36
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Indian American daughter reveals how the dangerous model minority myth fractured her family in t… read more
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"We abide by their story because we think that is how we gain acceptance in America. But we cannibalize our bodies, our spirits and our minds to feed a hunger that never abates. We struggle under a we…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"The world we live in, which demands perfection and achievement, teaches us we cannot love ourselves as we are. The myth teaches us to think greatness always resides outside us instead of within us. W…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
"We had each been raised to believe that every unknown could be resolved through willpower and intellect, a message reinforced by America's rigid conception of who we are supposed to be. The truth is,…"-Prachi Gupta, They Called Us Exceptional: And Other Lies That Raised Us
22. 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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- contemporary
- literary fiction
- 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
23. The Naked Don't Fear the Water: An Underground Journey with Afghan Refugees
By: Matthieu Aikins
4.18
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this extraordinary book, an acclaimed young war reporter chronicles a dangerous journey on the s… read more
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24. The Furrows
By: Namwali Serpell
3.21
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
How do you grieve an absence? A brilliantly inventive novel about loss and belonging, from the awar… read more
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- africa
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- contemporary
25. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
By: Elena Ferrante
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Four new and revelatory essays by the author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lost Daughter In 202… read more
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- italy
- italian literature
"Literary work couldn't seriously force the whirlpool of debris that constituted the real into any grammatical or syntactical order."-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
"Dealings with the world, yes, at any time they are entirely ours. But the words--the written form in which we enclose them, attentive to the red margins of our notebooks--are not. We have to accept t…"-Elena Ferrante, In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
26. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
27. Translating Myself and Others
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Luminous essays on translation and self-translation by an award-winning writer and literary transla… read more
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- italy
"To translate is to look into a mirror and see someone other than oneself."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"To translate is to alter one’s linguistic coordinates, to grab on to what has slipped away, to cope with exile."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"Translation will open up entire realms of possibilities, unforeseen pathways that will newly guide and inspire the writer’s work, and possibly even transform it. For to translate is to look into a mi…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
"We write books in a fixed moment in time, in a specific phase of our consciousness and development. That is why reading words written years ago feels alienating. You are no longer the person whose ex…"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Translating Myself and Others
28. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
29. The White Mosque
By: Sofia Samatar
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A historical tapestry of border-crossing travelers, of students, wanderers, martyrs and invaders, … read more
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30. Napoli
By: Francesco Abazia
4.27
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Nell’anno cruciale delle elezioni comunali che sanciscono la fine dell’era de Magistris The Passeng… read more
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31. Beyond Babylon
By: Igiaba Scego
3.95
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Introduction by Jhumpa LahiriRecipient of a prestigious 2018 PEN/Heim Translation Fund GrantAn epic… read more
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- somalia
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- 21st century
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- tunisia
