Hunter School
By: Sakinu Ahronglong
3.64
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiograp…
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1. Mātes piens
By: Nora Ikstena
4.28
Format: 175 pages, Hardcover
Noras Ikstenas romāns “Mātes piens” aptver laika posmu no Otrā pasaules kara beigām un vēsta par tr… read more
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"„Taip jau yra – ne visi gimsta, bet visi miršta."-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens
"Viņš apēda savu bērnu un pēc tam nomira ilgās pēc brīvības, es atbildēju. Drosmīgs kāmis, teica māte."-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens
"Mi madre era una presencia a la que estábamos siempre sujetos, dependientes de ella, a la que había que adaptarse. Vivíamos sometidos al capricho de sus ángeles y demonios."-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens
"Es ienīdu Bembiju. Es vēlējos, lai viņš būtu miris. Kā viņam trūka būrī? Ēdiens, silta miga, sieva un bērni. Viņš to visu nopostīja tikai tādēļ, lai tiktu izskrieties pa istabu? Lai nokļūtu kanalizāc…"-Nora Ikstena, Mātes piens
2. Notes of a Crocodile
By: Qiu Miaojin , Bonnie Huie
3.83
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
Set in the post-martial-law era of late 1980s Taipei, Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-ag… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Unhealthy love is two people stoking a shared fantasy of desperate beauty, weaponizing passion and desire."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Secretly though, I did sort of enjoy being a fucked-up mess. Apart from that, I didn't have a whole lot going on."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Like death, college serves as a kind of escape hatch. But while death takes you straight to the morgue, college is a single rope dangling loose from the inescapable net of society."-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
"Sweeping that other me into their arms, they led me in a dance within societal norms, along a trajectory based on a delusion. (Though I couldn't define what I was, I knew what I wasn't.)"-Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile
3. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
4. The Man Who Spoke Snakish
By: Andrus Kivirähk , Christopher Moseley
3.31
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
A bestseller in the author's native country of Estonia, where the book is so well known that a popu… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Chronicle in Stone
By: Ismail Kadare , Arshi Pipa
2.64
Format: 110 pages,
Masterful in its simplicity, Chronicle in Stoneis a touching coming-of-age story and a testament to… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
6. The Butcher's Wife
By: Howard Goldblatt , Li Ang , None , None
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Chen Jiangshui is a pig-butcher in a small coastal Taiwanese town. Stocky, with a paunch and deep-s… read more
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7. The Lost Garden
By: Howard Goldblatt , Li Ang , None
3.76
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
In this eloquent and atmospheric novel, Li Ang further cements her reputation as one of our most so… read more
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8. Os Transparentes
By: Ondjaki
3.14
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Mitten im Zentrum der angolanischen Hauptstadt Luanda steht das Maianga-Gebaude, ein heruntergekomm… read more
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9. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala
By: Ann Wright , Rigoberta Menchú , None
0.00
Format: None pages,
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10. The Hungry Tide
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.04
Format: 538 pages, Paperback
A contemporary story of adventure, history, and identity by acclaimed author Amitav Ghosh. Off the … read more
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11. Smile As They Bow
By: Alfred Birnbaum , Nu Nu Yi , Thi Thi Aye
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Hardcover
As the weeklong Taungbyon Festival draws near, thousands of villagers from all regions of Burma des… read more
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12. Deaf Republic
By: Ilya Kaminsky
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Ilya Kaminsky's astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence?Deaf Republic opens in an occ… read more
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- fiction
"A man should smell better than his country"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?"-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
"I do not hear gunshots, but watch birds splash over the backyards of the suburbs. How bright is the sky as the avenue spins on its axis. How bright is the sky (forgive me) how bright."-Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic
13. Ghost Town
By: Kevin Chen
4.15
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Chen Tien-Hong, the only and desperately yearned for son of a traditional Taiwanese family with sev… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"Gã cảm thấy lời chửi của tiếng Đức rất êm tai, cạo cổ họng, chà răng lưỡi, thô ráp như giấy nhám, mài giũa những câu chuyện xưa bẩn thỉu lồi lõm."-Kevin Chen, Ghost Town
14. The White Book
By: Han Kang
3.81
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary p… read more
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- asia
- short stories
- fiction
- audiobook
"Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness."-Han Kang, The White Book
"This life needed only one of us to live it. If you had lived beyond those first few hours, I would not be living now. My life means yours is impossible."-Han Kang, The White Book
"And she frequently forgot, That her body (all our bodies) is a house of sand. That it shattered and is shattering still. Slipping stubbornly through fingers."-Han Kang, The White Book
"There is none of us whom life regards with any partiality. Sleet falls as she walks these streets, holding this knowledge inside her. Sleet that leaves cheeks and eyebrows heavy with moisture. Everyt…"-Han Kang, The White Book
15. The Stolen Bicycle
By: Wu Ming-Yi
3.88
Format: 308 pages, Kindle Edition
On a quest to explain how and why his father mysteriously disappeared twenty years ago, a writer em… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"The love of old things is a way of respecting time."-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
"Sometimes I think that in the end all art is selfish, that it won't necessarily change other people's minds-but whatever it changes, you yourself knows best."-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
"The moment a man traverses a mountain range on a bicycle, he is like the first Mongolian you ever lept onto a wild horse on the steppe -- a rearing, snorting, bucking creature no one had ever thought…"-Wu Ming-Yi, The Stolen Bicycle
16. 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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- fiction
- historical fiction
"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
17. Death Is Hard Work
By: Khaled Khalifa
3.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
A dogged, absurd quest through the nightmare of the Syrian civil war Khaled Khalifa's Death Is H… read more
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- asia
- fiction
- historical fiction
"إن أفضل الوسائل لهزم الحرب هي التوقف عن الحديث عنها"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"أسوء ما في الحرب تناسل الأحداث الغرائبية ,وتحول القصص المأساوية إلى حدث عادي"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"في الحرب مرور جنازة حدث عادي لا يثير اي شئ سوى حسد الأحياء الذين تحولت حياتهم الى إنتظار مؤلم للموت"-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
"اللحظة الأخيرة دوماً عاطفية، غالباً غير مناسبة للتفكير، لا مجال فيها لمحاكمات عقلانية، ويتكثّف فيها الزمن."-Khaled Khalifa, Death Is Hard Work
18. Wives Like Us
By: Plum Sykes
3.55
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Take a grand English country house, one (heartbroken) American divorcee, three rich wives, two tyco… read more
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- fiction
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19. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
By: Jessica J. Lee
3.42
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Combining an immersive exploration of nature with captivatingly beautiful prose, Jessica J. Lee emb… read more
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- nature
- audiobook
"A taxi driver asked me why my Mandarin was so good for a foreigner. “My mother is from Taiwan,"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"And where I couldn’t find words, I fell to other languages: to plants, to history, to landscape."-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"This is not a place I could simply learn, and it is not mine anyway. I belong in a forest in a much bigger, colder country. I am not built for heat any more than my mother was built for winter. I spe…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
"His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked sho…"-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past
20. Igifu
By: Scholastique Mukasonga
4.37
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
The stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a surviv… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
21. Hunter School
By: Sakinu Ahronglong
3.64
Format: 162 pages, Paperback
Hunter School is a timely piece of fiction, drawing on the recollections, folklore, and autobiograp… read more
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- historical fiction
- nature
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