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  • No Windmills in Basra

    by Diaa Jubaili ...
    Translated by Chip Rossetti ...
    A bold, imaginative collection of short stories set in Southern Iraq from prolific, award-winning novelist Diaa Jubaili.Influenced in turn by the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the stories in No Windmills in Basra reflect a reality tinged by the city’s history with war. Yet the fantastic and playful peek through, offering an astounding breadth of ... Read more

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  • The Cinderellas of Muscat

    by Huda Hamed ...
    Translated by Chip Rossetti ...
    During the modernisation of Muscat, people's spirits seemed to harden and dry up, and one day the female jinn just disappeared. Where did they go to? Have they all died, are they in hiding after losing out to electricity and cement, to air conditioners and televisions? Has life lost its playfulness and joy without the transformational powers of the jinn? Are life's sweet moments of pleasure and ... Read more

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  • Animals in Our Days

    A Book of Stories

    by Mohamed Makhzangi ...
    Translated by Chip Rossetti ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    Each story in Mohamed Makhzangi’s unique collection Animals in Our Days features a different animal species and its fraught relationship with humans—water buffalo in a rural village gone mad from electric lights, brass grasshoppers purchased in a crowded Bangkok market, or ghostly rabbits that haunt the site of a long-ago brutal military crackdown. Other stories tell of bear-trainers in India and ... Read more

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    by Salman Rushdie ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—NewsdayWinner of the Whitbread PrizeOne of the most controversial and acclaimed novels ever written, The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie’s best-known and most galvan ... Read more

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  • The Bastard of Istanbul

    by Elif Shafak ...
    A “vivid and entertaining” (Chicago Tribune) tale about the tangled history of two families, from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club Pick)"Zesty, imaginative . . . a Turkish version of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." —USA TodayAs an Armenian American living in San Francisco, Armanoush feels like part of her identity is missing and that she must make a journey back to the ... Read more

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  • Gravel Heart

    By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

    by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the ... Read more

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  • Leila's Secret

    by Kooshyar Karimi ...
    Spellbinding and heartbreaking, the true story told by Kooshyar Karimi in Leila's Secret shows us everyday life for women in a country where it can be a crime to fall in love.Born in a slum to a Muslim father and a Jewish mother, Kooshyar Karimi has transformed himself into a successful doctor, an award-winning writer, and an adoring father. His could be a comfortable life but his conscience won't ... Read more

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  • Celestial Bodies

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who ... Read more

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  • Journey from the Land of No

    A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran

    by Roya Hakakian ...
    An emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran“An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with ... Read more

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  • The Translator

    by Leila Aboulela ...
    A New York Times Notable Book: "Aboulela's lovely, brief story encompasses worlds of melancholy and gulfs between cultures" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).American readers were introduced to the award-winning Sudanese author Leila Aboulela with Minaret, a delicate tale of a privileged young African Muslim woman adjusting to her new life as a maid in London. Now, for the first time in North ... Read more

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  • About My Mother

    by Tahar Ben Jelloun ...
    Translated by Roz Schwartz ...
    Since she's been ill, Lalla Fatma has become a frail little thing with a faltering memory. Lalla Fatma thinks she's in Fez in 1944, where she grew up, not in Tangier in 2000, where this story begins. She calls out to family members who are long dead and loses herself in the streets of her childhood, yearning for her first love and the city she left behind. By her bedside, her son Tahar listens to ... Read more

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  • Savor

    A Chef's Hunger for More

    by Fatima Ali ...
    JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and mortality in Savor, an “inspiring” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir and family story that sweeps from Pakistan to Manhattan and beyond.“Ali’s strength and passion for food and her culture shines through. . . . This memoir is a tribute to the ... Read more

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