Book type: fiction (6203)
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My Thousand and One Nights : A Novel of Mecca by Raja Alem EN
Country: Asia / 
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Description:
The distinguished Middle Eastern author Raja Alem grew up in Mecca at a time when the holy city was on the cusp of changing from medieval to modern. In this vanished Mecca, vividly brought to life again in My Thousand and One Nights, women hold center stage—especially Jummo, the wildly passionate daughter of the Water Carriers’ Sheik. This faraway time and setting become compellingly real as we follow the intimate drama of Jummo’s life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherwor... continue
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My Uncle Napoleon by Iraj Pezeshkzad EN
IranDescription:
The most beloved Iranian novel of the twentieth century “God forbid, I’ve fallen in love with Layli!” So begins the farce of our narrator’s life, one spent in a large extended Iranian family lorded over by the blustering, paranoid patriarch, Dear Uncle Napoleon. When Uncle Napoleon’s least-favorite nephew falls for his daughter, Layli, family fortunes are reversed, feuds fired up and resolved, and assignations attempted and thwarted. First published in Iran in the 1970s and adapted into a hugely successful television series, this beloved novel is now “Suggested Reading” in Azar Nafisi’s Readin... continue
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My Urohs by Emelihter Kihleng EN
Country: Oceania / 
Micronesia
Micronesia
Description:
The first collection of poetry by a Pohnpeian poet, Emelihter Kihleng's My Urohs is described by distinguished Samoan writer and artist Albert Wendt as "refreshingly innovative and compelling, a new way of seeing ourselves in our islands, an important and influential addition to our [Pacific] literature."
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DenmarkDescription:
From the acclaimed author of The Employees, a radical, funny, and mercilessly honest novel about motherhood. After giving birth, Anna is utterly lost. She and her family move to the unfamiliar, snowy city of Stockholm. Anxiety threatens to completely engulf Anna, who obsessively devours online news and compulsively orders clothes she can’t afford. To avoid sinking deeper into her depression, she forces herself to read and write. My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms—fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters—to explore ... continue
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My Year Abroad : A Novel by Chang-rae Lee EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book * Named a Best Book of the Year by Vogue, TIME, and Marie Claire “A manifesto to happiness—the one found when you stop running from who you are.” –New York Times Book Review “An extraordinary book, acrobatic on the level of the sentence, symphonic across its many movements—and this is a book that moves…My Year Abroad is a wild ride—a caper, a romance, a bildungsroman, and something of a satire of how to get filthy rich in rising Asia.” – Vogue From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocat... continue
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
FROM THE MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF EILEEN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Savage, funny, frequently on the verge of teetering into lunacy... My Year of Rest and Relaxationis a non-negotiable in your holiday carry-on this summer' Vogue It's the year 2000 in a city aglitter with wealth and possibility; what could be so terribly wrong? Our narrator has many of the advantages of life- Young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, she lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like everything else, by her inheritance. But there is a vacuum at the heart of things, a... continue
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Myal : A Novel by Erna Brodber EN
Country: North America / 
Jamaica
Jamaica
Description:
Jamaican-born novelist and sociologist Erna Brodber describes Myal as “an exploration of the links between the way of life forged by the people of two points of the black diaspora—the Afro-Americans and the Afro-Jamaicans.” Operating on many literary levels—thematically, linguistically, stylistically—it is the story of women’s cultural and spiritual struggle in colonial Jamaica. The novel opens at the beginning of the 20th century with a community gathering to heal the mysterious illness of a young woman, Ella, who has returned to Jamaica after an unsuccessful marriage abroad. The Afro-Jamaica... continue
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Myosotis : Un amor enigmático by Bégong-Bodoli Betina ES
Country: Africa / 
Central African Republic
Central African Republic
Description:
Por una tarde soleada, Bewori, un joven alumno, da un beso a Myosotis, una jovencita inocente, mientras se divierten persiguiéndose por la maleza. Comprueba el muchacho que la saliva de la chica es suculenta. Es el principio de una aventura amorosa que los dos jóvenes van a experimentar. Poco a poco, el amor de los dos se afianza, y Bewori pide a su padre a que vaya a hacer la petición de mano de su querida. Después de muchas reservas, éste acaba por cumplir la voluntad de su hijo. Más tarde, la familia de Myosotis la trae a casa de los padres de Bewori. Desde entonces, los dos jóvenes van a v... continue