The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
By: Dohra Ahmad
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Ma…
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1. Gravel Heart
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize shortlisted author of Par… read more
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- literature
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"Bir yaşa gelmeden hayatın ne kadar uzun olduğunu anlamıyorsun. Her şeyinin bittiğiniz sanıyorsun ama bitmiyor, uzun süre bitmiyor. bedeninin hayatta kalmak için ne kadar az güce ihtiyacı olduğunu anl…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Gravel Heart
2. My Year of Meats
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.02
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
A cross-cultural tale of two women brought together by the intersections of television and industri… read more
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"You never know who it's going to be, or what they'll bring, but whatever it is, it's always exactly what is needed."-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Shōnagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"Once in a while a story is spectacular enough to break through and attract media attention, but the swell quickly subsides into the general glut of bad news over which we, as citizens, have so little…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
"I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If w…"-Ruth Ozeki, My Year of Meats
3. They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
By: Hanif Abdurraqib
4.57
Format: 291 pages, Paperback
In an age of confusion, fear, and loss, Hanif Abdurraqib's is a voice that matters. Whether he's at… read more
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- poetry
- short stories
- essays
"We make our own music to celebrate our dead where we must."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"Home is where the heart begins, but not where the heart stays."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It is a luxury to see some violence as terror and other violence as necessary."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
"It's in the spirit of male loneliness to imagine that someone has to suffer for it."-Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us
4. Becoming Americans: Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing
By: Ilan Stavans
3.83
Format: 28 pages,
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- short stories
- anthologies
5. Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
By: Philip Roth
4.50
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the National Book Award Roth's award-winning first book--about Neil Klugman, Brenda Patim… read more
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- literature
- fiction
- classics
- short stories
6. The Arrival
By: Shaun Tan
4.30
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more
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7. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction
By: J.D. Salinger
4.10
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The author writes: The two long pieces in this book originally came out in The New Yorker ? RAISE H… read more
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8. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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9. We Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more
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10. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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- literature
- poetry
- classics
- fiction
"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
11. The Tale of Kieu: A bilingual edition of Nguyen Du's Truyen Kieu
By: Alexander Barton Woodside , None , Nguyễn Du
3.98
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Since its publication in the early nineteenth century, this long narrative poem has stood unchallen… read more
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12. Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?
By: Raymond Carver
3.74
Format: 70 pages, Paperback
With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down s… read more
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13. The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears
By: Dinaw Mengestu
4.10
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
A haunting and powerful first novel that views the streets of Washington, D.C. and Addis Ababa thro… read more
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14. What Does Israel Fear From Palestine?
By: Raja Shehadeh
4.34
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
A searing reflection on the failures of Israel to treat Palestine and Palestinians as equals, as pa… read more
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- essays
15. The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
By: Antony Loewenstein
4.44
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Bestselling journalist Antony Loewenstein uncovers the widespread commercialisation and brutal depl… read more
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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
"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. Postcolonial Love Poem
By: Natalie Díaz
4.33
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Natalie Diaz’s highly anticipated follow-up to When My Brother Was an Aztec, winner of an American … read more
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- 21st century
- poetry
"Unsoothable thirst is one kind of haunting"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?"-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"Maybe death is a way to clean the self, of the body, to finally celebrate it. A celebration should leave a mess."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
"At the National Museum of the American Indian, 68 percent of the collection is from the United States. I am doing my best to not become a museum of myself. I am doing my best to breathe in and out."-Natalie Díaz, Postcolonial Love Poem
18. The Animals in That Country
By: Laura Jean McKay
3.42
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Out on the road, no one speaks, everything talks. Hard-drinking, foul-mouthed, and allergic to b… read more
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19. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives
By: Viet Thanh Nguyen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more
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- short stories
- essays
- anthologies
20. The Penguin Book of Migration Literature: Departures, Arrivals, Generations, Returns
By: Dohra Ahmad
4.21
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The first global anthology of migration literature featuring works by Mohsin Hamid, Zadie Smith, Ma… read more
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- classics
- literature
- theory
- anthologies
- short stories
- essays
- fiction
- 21st century
- society
21. The Bog Wife
By: Kay Chronister
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In this atmospheric Appalachian gothic, the Haddesley siblings of West Virginia must unearth long-b… read more
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