A Girl Called Eel
By: Ali Zamir
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at…
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1. The Good Life Elsewhere
By: Vladimir Lorchenkov , Ross Ufberg
3.55
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
The Good Life Elsewhere is a very funny book. It is also a very sad one. Moldovan writer Vladimir L… read more
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- literary fiction
- international
- fiction
"At night,"-Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere
"Then why do they come?"-Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere
"Keep harping on about how Europe’s close to accepting you,"-Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere
"When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody."-Vladimir Lorchenkov, The Good Life Elsewhere
2. How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
By: Sandra Uwiringiyimana , Abigail Pesta
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this powerful memoir, Sandra Uwiringyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, te… read more
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- africa
- adult
"It's okay to express yourself. It doesn't mean you're weak"-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
"I knew the sounds of war before I knew how to do a cartwheel."-Sandra Uwiringiyimana, How Dare the Sun Rise: Memoirs of a War Child
3. The Tale of Aypi
By: Ak Welsapar
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ingenting ar som vanligt i den lilla fiskebyn vid Kaspiska havets kust. Myndigheterna har forbjudit… read more
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- 21st century
- fiction
4. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- africa
- international
- fiction
5. Aya (Aya #1)
By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None
4.12
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more
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6. En attendant Bojangles
By: Olivier Bourdeaut
3.48
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
Sous le regard emerveille de leur fils, ils dansent sur <>de Nina Simone. Leur amour est magique, v… read more
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7. Baba Yaga Laid an Egg
By: Mark Thompson , Dubravka Ugrešić , Celia Hawkesworth , Ellen Elias-Bursać
3.29
Format: None pages, Hardcover
"Baba Yaga is an old hag who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. She… read more
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8. Journey to the End of the Night
By: Louis-Ferdinand Céline , Ralph Manheim , William T. Vollmann
4.19
Format: 453 pages, Paperback
Louis-Ferdinand Celine's revulsion and anger at what he considered the idiocy and hypocrisy of soci… read more
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- france
- fiction
"If you aren't rich you should always look useful."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"When you write, you should put your skin on the table."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Sonuçta savaş dediğiniz şey, anlamadığınız ne varsa odur"-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
"Nearly all a poor bastard's desires are punishable by jail."-Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
9. Fatelessness
By: Imre Kertész , Tim Wilkinson
3.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the age of 14 Georg Koves is plucked from his home in a Jewish section of Budapest and without a… read more
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10. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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11. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
By: Edgar Allan Poe , Richard Kopley
3.32
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
This rousing sea adventure follows a New England boy, Pym, who stows away on a whaling ship with it… read more
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12. The Attack
By: Yasmina Khadra , John T. Cullen
3.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Dr. Amin Jaafari, an Arab-Israeli citizen, is a surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. Dedicated to his… read more
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13. The Ultimate Tragedy
By: Jethro Soutar , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of… read more
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14. Broken Glass
By: Alain Mabanckou , Helen Stevenson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a cou… read more
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15. Shy
By: Max Porter
3.63
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."-Max Porter, Shy
"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."-Max Porter, Shy
"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"-Max Porter, Shy
"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"-Max Porter, Shy
16. Blutbuch
By: Kim de l'Horizon
3.89
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Die Erzählfigur in ›Blutbuch‹ identifiziert sich weder als Mann noch als Frau. Aufgewachsen in eine… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Ich wollte kein Gegenstand sein, ich wollte ein Mensch sein und gross; und gross zu sein, bedeutete, ein Geschlecht zu haben, ein männliches. Als Frau drohte einem, ein Gegenstand zu bleiben oder ein…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
"Ich wollte dir meine konstante Angst vor meinem Körper erzählen: Mit dem schrecklichsten Monster unterm Bett unter einer Decke zu stecken. Nur ist das keine Decke, sondern meine Haut. Eine Angst, wie…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
"Und so ass ich meine erste koschere Zimtschnecke mit Dina, es war Anfang Sommer, die Sommerferienekstase der Kinder diffundierte in unsere trägen Glieder rüber, wir sassen vor der Bäckerei, und es wa…"-Kim de l'Horizon, Blutbuch
17. A Girl Called Eel
By: Ali Zamir
3.38
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Anguille is a 17-year-old girl who leaves her rock on the archipelago of Comoros to lose herself at… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- comoros
- france
- fiction
- 21st century
- adult
- international
18. How We Disappeared
By: Jing-Jing Lee
4.20
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Singapore, 1942. As Japanese troops sweep down Malaysia and into Singapore, a village is ransacked,… read more
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- literary fiction
- adult
- fiction
19. In the Company of Men
By: Véronique Tadjo
3.84
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Drawing on real accounts of the Ebola outbreak that devastated West Africa, this poignant, timely f… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
20. There Are Rivers in the Sky
By: Elif Shafak
4.58
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
From the Booker Prize finalist author of The Island of Missing Trees, an enchanting new tale about … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog."-Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky
21. Co-wives, Co-widows
By: Adrienne Yabouza
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- france
- fiction
- 21st century
- adult
