The Wasted Vigil
By: Nadeem Aslam
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel--at once lyrical and blistering--about war …
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1. Joe Speedboot
By: Tommy Wieringa
3.70
Format: 315 pages, Paperback
Joe Speedboot is een roman over liefde en rivaliteit, over een verlosser zonder belofte en een hero… read more
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"De absolute prijsbok van het schoolplein."-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot
"In tijden van droogte sterven de bloemen als eerste."-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot
"Het was groot machtsvertoon, de alfadieren op hun best."-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot
"Angst en overmoed, dat is de motor van de geschiedenis."-Tommy Wieringa, Joe Speedboot
2. Burnt Shadows
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.93
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Beginning on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, and ending in a prison cell in the US in 2002, as a man i… read more
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- literary fiction
- war
- pakistan
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"When the war's over, I'll be kind."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"بالنسبة الي هيروكو، أن تعرف يعني أن تُريد"-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"إن كان أعظم ما فقدهُ في حياته ليس سوى حلم كان يعرف دائمًا أنه مجرد حلم، فهو إذن من المحظوظين."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
"There was little Hiroko Tanaka hadn’t learnt about the shameful resilience of the human heart."-Kamila Shamsie, Burnt Shadows
3. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
4. Austerlitz
By: Anthea Bell , W.G. Sebald
4.67
Format: 48 pages, Paperback
In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with f… read more
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- novels
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5. Last Night in Twisted River
By: John Irving
4.33
Format: 481 pages, Hardcover
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
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6. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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- literary fiction
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
7. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- literary fiction
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- contemporary
8. A House for Mr Biswas
By: V.S. Naipaul
4.06
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years of life striving for independence. Shuttled from one residence … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
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9. In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
By: Daniyal Mueenuddin
4.10
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A major literary debut that explores class, culture, power, and desire among the ruling and servant… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
10. A God in Every Stone
By: Kamila Shamsie
3.99
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
July 1914. Young Englishwoman Vivian Rose Spencer is running up a mountainside in an ancient land, … read more
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- pakistan
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- historical fiction
11. Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
By: Mohammed Hanif
4.12
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bha… read more
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- pakistan
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- contemporary
12. Falling Man
By: Don DeLillo , None
3.16
Format: 315 pages,
There is September 11 and then there are the days after, and finally the years. Falling Man is a ma… read more
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13. 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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- pakistan
- fiction
- historical fiction
14. The Vagrants
By: Yiyun Li
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Brilliant and illuminating, this astonishing debut novel by the award-winning writer Yiyun Li is se… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
15. Cracking India
By: Bapsi Sidhwa
3.67
Format: 44 pages, Paperback
The 1947 Partition of India is the backdrop for this powerful novel, narrated by a precocious child… read more
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- pakistan
- fiction
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16. Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights
By: Salman Rushdie
3.95
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
From one of the greatest writers of our time: the most spellbinding, entertaining, wildly imaginati… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
17. The Wasted Vigil
By: Nadeem Aslam
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The author of Maps for Lost Lovers gives us a new novel--at once lyrical and blistering--about war … read more
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- literary fiction
- war
- pakistan
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- novels
18. Welcome to Lagos
By: Chibundu Onuzo
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Deep in the Niger Delta, officer Chike Ameobi deserts the army and sets out on the road to Lagos. H… read more
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19. The Water-Method Man
By: John Irving
3.85
Format: None pages, Paperback
The main character of John Irving's second novel, written when the author was twenty-nine, is a per… read more
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20. Shame
By: Salman Rushdie
4.30
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN Omar Khayyam Shakil had three mothers who shar… read more
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21. The White Castle
By: Orhan Pamuk , Victoria Rowe Holbrook
4.65
Format: None pages, Paperback
From a Turkish writer who has been compared with Borges, Nabokov, and DeLillo comes a dazzling nove… read more
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22. 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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23. Prophet Song
By: Paul Lynch
4.10
Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internat… read more
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- war
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"people are entitled to some small moment of peace."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"the child absorbing the mother’s trauma and storing it in his body for later use,"-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"... time is at once addition and subtraction, time adds one day to the next and always takes away from what's left..."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
"...knowing how it is so that all boys grow up and pull away from home to unmake the world in the guise of making it, nature decrees it so."-Paul Lynch, Prophet Song
24. Disoriental
By: Négar Djavadi
4.21
Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of a young girl and her family, at the core of an exploration of Iranian history. Kimi… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
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"That's the tragedy of exile. Things, as well as people, still exist, but you have to pretend to think of them as dead."-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
"We had all hoped that a day would come when the five of us could live together again, free and without fear. But freedom is an illusion. The only thing that changes is the size of your prison."-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
"I was confronted by a world that I could see and touch but didn't know how to talk about. There were so many words and names that I just didn't have. Flowers, trees, birds, reptiles, organs. The word…"-Négar Djavadi, Disoriental
25. Dawnlands (The Fairmile #3)
By: Philippa Gregory
4.07
Format: 526 pages, Paperback
It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many famili… read more
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26. Orbital
By: Samantha Harvey
3.73
Format: 207 pages, Hardcover
A slender novel of epic power, Orbital deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men … read more
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- novels
- fiction
- contemporary
"Maybe we're the new dinosaurs and need to watch out."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"The past comes, the future, the past, the future. It's always now, it's never now."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"Raw space is a panther, feral and primal; they dream it stalking through their quarters."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
"That's all this great human endeavor of space exploration really is, he thinks, an animal migration, a bid for survival. A looping song sent into the open, a territorial animal song."-Samantha Harvey, Orbital
27. The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
By: Nick Hayes
4.45
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A meditation on the fraught and complex relationship between land, politics and power, this is Engl… read more
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28. A Net for Small Fishes
By: Lucy Jago
3.87
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
When Frances Howard, unhappy wife of the Earl of Essex, meets the talented Anne Turner, the two str… read more
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"Murder and marriage is not a happy mix."-Lucy Jago, A Net for Small Fishes
29. Beneath the Veneer
By: Sreya Sarkar
4.12
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
The newly sprouted town of Rangvihar has lured people with the promise of a safe haven, away from D… read more
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30. Friedrichstrasse 19
By: Emma Harding
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
'Sometimes I get fanciful and think the buildings speak. That all their history is locked into the … read more
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