The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
By: Saadat Hasan Manto
4.02
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
“[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic…
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1. The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
By: Marcel Proust , None , Terence Kilmartin , D.J. Enright
4.39
Format: 957 pages, Paperback
The Modern Library’s fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time contains both The Captive (1923) and Th… read more
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"...every social class has its own pathology..."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
"There are optical errors in time as there are in space."-Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5-6)
2. Babel-17
By: Samuel R. Delany
4.25
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Babel-17is all about the power of language. Humanity, which has spread throughout the universe, is … read more
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3. The Second Sex
By: Simone de Beauvoir , Deirdre Bair , H.M. Parshley
3.60
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir's masterwork is a… read more
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4. Min kamp 1 (Min kamp #1)
By: Karl Ove Knausgård
4.11
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Min kamp ar Karl Ove Knausgards maktiga sjalvbiografiska roman. Forsta delen inleds med en svepande… read more
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5. The City & the City
By: China Miéville
3.90
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to … read more
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"shit, shit, shit."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Same weather over here as back home," I said."-China Miéville, The City & the City
"Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?"-China Miéville, The City & the City
"What had touched me sent me not into mindless silence but into a dream arena, where I was quarry."-China Miéville, The City & the City
6. A Case of Exploding Mangoes
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.06
Format: 360 pages,
Intrigue and subterfuge combine with bad luck and good in this darkly comic debut about love, betra… read more
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7. After the Prophet: The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
By: Lesley Hazleton
3.79
Format: 477 pages,
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8. The First Muslim: The Story of Muhammad
By: Lesley Hazleton
4.21
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited--and remade. Muhamm… read more
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9. 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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10. Pastoralia
By: George Saunders
4.34
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
From an author named by The New Yorker as one of the "20 Best American Fiction Writers Under 40," a… read more
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11. 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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12. The Red Palace
By: June Hur
4.13
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Joseon (Korea), 1758. There are few options available to illegitimate daughters in the capital city… read more
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"We are women,"-June Hur, The Red Palace
"There is only you."-June Hur, The Red Palace
"I say with utmost respect,"-June Hur, The Red Palace
"Do you not know me, nauri? I am Baek-hyeon."-June Hur, The Red Palace
13. Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
By: A. Helwa
4.51
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Are you longing to experience a more intimate and loving relationship with the Divine? Secrets … read more
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"In Arabic, the word fitna, meaning “hardship,"-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"To every cry of, 'Oh God'. He answers a hundred times, 'I am here'."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
"We are all born with spiritual wings, Islam simply reminds us how to fly."-A. Helwa, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam
14. 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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"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
15. Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
By: Marlon James
3.45
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
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"What a day when a man tell me what to do."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"You could have a family of one and still drive them apart."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Because at the end of a true story, there is nothing but waste."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
"Why should anybody want anybody? Just have nothing, just need nothing."-Marlon James, Black Leopard, Red Wolf (The Dark Star Trilogy, #1)
16. Alexandria: The City that Changed the World
By: Islam Issa
4.10
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
A city drawn in sand. Inspired by the tales of Homer and his own ambitions of empire, Alexander … read more
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17. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
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18. A Postcard for Annie
By: Ida Jessen
3.70
Format: 180 pages, Paperback
A young woman witnesses a terrible accident with unexpected consequences, a mother sits with her un… read more
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19. Glorious Exploits
By: Ferdia Lennon
4.24
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An utterly original celebration of that which binds humanity across battle lines and history. On… read more
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"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I had the feeling that the future and the pas…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
"He sang a song from Media's chorus, it was a few bitter scenes later when the kids are dead, and it gives a weird sense of time mergin', and for a moment I have the feeling that the future and the pa…"-Ferdia Lennon, Glorious Exploits
20. The Other Americans
By: Laila Lalami
3.90
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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21. The Dog of Tithwal: Stories
By: Saadat Hasan Manto
4.02
Format: 418 pages, Paperback
“[Manto’s] empathy and narrative economy invite comparisons with Chekhov. These readable, idiomatic… read more
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- pakistan
- short stories
- india
- 20th century
- fiction
- historical fiction
