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Recommended books (1)
Travel the world without leaving your chair. The target of the Read Around The World Challenge is to read at least one book written by an author from each and every country in the world. All books that are listed here as part of the "Read Around Asia Challenge" were written by authors from United Arab Emirates. Find a great book for the next part of your reading journey around the world from this book list. The following popular books have been recommended so far.

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Temporary People

Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan EN

Rating: 3     4 Votes
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"Guest workers of the United Arab Emirates embody multiple worlds and identities and long for home in a fantastical debut work of fiction, winner of the inaugural Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing.… The author's crisp, imaginative prose packs a punch, and his whimsical depiction of characters who oscillate between two lands on either side of the Arabian Sea unspools the kind of immigrant narratives that are rarely told. An enchanting, unparalleled anthem of displacement and repatriation." —Kirkus Reviews In the United Arab Emirates, foreign nationals constitute over 80 percent of ... continue
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Recommended: 11 Jan 2023


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