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The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

by Amitav Ghosh

Published: 2001-01-23

Paperback: 320 pages

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From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosome takes readers on a wondrous journey through time as a computer programmer trapped in a mind-numbing job hits upon a curious item that will forever change his life. When Antar discovers the battered I.D. card of a long-lo...

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Ancestor Stones

by Aminatta Forna

Published: 2007-09-10

Paperback: 336 pages

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Aminatta Forna, whose moving and gorgeously written memoir garnered international attention, has seamlessly turned her hand to fiction in Ancestor Stones a powerful, sensuous novel that beautifully captures Africa’s past century and her present, and the legacy that her daughters take wit...

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Land Where I Flee

by Prajwal Parajuly

Published: 2015-06-02

Hardcover: 272 pages

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Shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, Prajwal Parajuly has established himself as a distinctive voice in literature about the South Asian diaspora. Now in his debut novel, Land Where I Flee about returning home, Parajuly demonstrates that he is, as Manil Suri noted, "a master capturing, ...

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The Lacuna: Deluxe Modern Classic

by Barbara Kingsolver

Published: 2009-10-14

Kindle Edition: 681 pages

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In The Lacuna, her first novel in nine years, Barbara Kingsolver, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, tells the story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds—an unforgettable pr...

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Icarus: A Novel

by Deon Meyer

Published: 2016-10-11

Paperback: 384 pages

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Deon Meyer, South Africa’s preeminent crime fiction writer, is internationally acclaimed for his razor’s-edge thrillers, unforgettable characters, and nuanced portrayals of contemporary life in his native country. The latest pulse-pounder starring Captain Benny Griessel, a lead detecti...

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The Dancing and the Death in Lemon Street

by Denis Hirson

Published: 2011

Paperback: 276 pages

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Violence rendered things visible, writes Denis Hirson in this beautifully crafted, musical story, which is as much about seeing how people lived at that time as it is about desire, loneliness and the desperate, blind need for revenge. Lemon street runs downslope through a leafy, peaceful suburb of Johannesburg....

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London Cape Town Joburg

by Zukiswa Wanner

Published: 2014-07-11

Kindle Edition: 298 pages

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1994. The world is about to change. The first truly democratic election in South Africa’s history is about to unite Nelson Mandela’s rainbow nation at the ballot box. And, across the world, those in exile, those who could not return home, those who would not return home, wait. Watch an...

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The Last Crossing: A Novel

by Guy Vanderhaeghe

Published: 2004-11-30

Paperback: 416 pages

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The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of breathtaking quests, adventurous detours, and hard-won redemption. Englishmen Charles and Addington Gaunt are ordered by their tyrannical industrialist father to find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charle...

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Two Kinds Of Wonderful

by Isla Dewar

Published: 2001

Paperback: 352 pages

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Ten years have passed since Roz committed the ultimate sin of motherhood: she left her family behind when she walked out on her husband. Now, drawn back into that world by the death of their redoubtlable grandmother, Nan, Roz finds herself embroiled in the lives of her grown-up children.

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Flights of Love: Stories (Vintage International)

by Bernhard Schlink

Published: 2007-12-18

Kindle Edition: 320 pages

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Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for lo...