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Perlmann's Silence

by Pascal Mercier

Published: 2013-02-12

Paperback: 640 pages

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"What might have been, in less talented hands, an amusing literary thriller is, in Mercier's prose . . . something far more complex." ?Alberto Manguel, The Guardian (UK)Night Train to Lisbon, a tremendous international best seller, established Pascal Mercier as one of the most striking Eur...

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Period Pain

by Kopano Matlwa

Published: 2017-07-01

Paperback: 160 pages

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Period Pain captures the heartache and confusion of so many South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors; xenophobia, corrective rape, corruption and crime and for many the death sentence that is the public health nightmare. Where are we going, what have we become? Pe...

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Come Sunday: A Novel

by Isla Morley

Published: 2009-05-26

Kindle Edition: 330 pages

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A wonderful new storyteller unleashes a soaring debut that sweeps from the hills of Hawaii to the veldt of South Africa.Come Sunday is that joyous, special thing: a saga that captivates from the very first page, breaking our hearts while making our spirits soar. Abbe Deighton is a woman wh...

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Red Earth and Pouring Rain: A Novel

by Vikram Chandra

Published: 1995

Paperback: 542 pages

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Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.

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A Black Englishman: A Novel

by Carolyn Slaughter

Published: 2005-11-15

Kindle Edition: 353 pages

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India, 1920: exotic, glamorous, and violent, as the country begins to resist England's colonial grip. In the midst of this turmoil, Isabel, a young British military wife, begins a passionate liaison with Sam, an Indian doctor and Oxford graduate who insists, against all odds, on the right ...

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The Opposite House

by Helen Oyeyemi

Published: 2008-06-10

Paperback: 272 pages

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Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a Santeria emis...

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The Age of Magic

by Ben Okri

Published: 2001

Paperback: 0 pages

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Arab Jazz

by Karim Misk?

Published: 2017-03-07

Paperback: 304 pages

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Kosher sushi, kebab stands, a secondhand bookstore, and a bar: the 19th arrondissement in Paris has all the trappings of a cosmopolitan melting pot--a place where multiethnic citizens live, love, and worship alongside one another. But dark passions are brewing beneath the seemingly idyllic...

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In Arcadia

by Ben Okri

Published: 2015-03-12

Paperback: 272 pages

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From Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri: a voyage into the enduring myth of Arcadia and the mysterious painting it inspired. A lyrical novel about art and enlightenment that takes the reader from Waterloo Station in London to Paris and a four hundred year old enigma, the painting by Nicolas Poussin known as...

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The Silent Minaret

by Ishtiyaq Shukri

Published: 2007-04-01

Paperback: 248 pages

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Daring in both form and content, this novel of belief and betrayal shuttles between two connected moments in history and two countries linked by their colonial past and globalized present. The friends of a young student who has gone missing try to reconstruct his life as they search for...