Book type: fiction (6144)


4511.

The First Woman by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Country: Africa / Uganda flag Uganda
Description:
A dazzling feminist coming of age tale from the award-winning author of Kintu

4512.

The Fisherman King by Kathrina Mohd Daud EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Asia / Brunei flag Brunei
Description:
Eight years ago, Lisan the fisherman, who has always believed he was descended from royalty, left his wife and the Water Village. Now he’s back, and he says he can prove it. Six hundred years ago, a forbidden relationship between the royal children of Brunei set into motion a chain of events that will end with the death of a king...or the death of a god. As the story of Lisan’s true intentions – and what he was really doing in those years away – unravels, the story of those doomed royal children also spins to its inevitable conclusion.


4514.

The Five : The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold EN

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Description:
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped people-traffickers. What they had in common was the year of their murders: 1888

4515.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom EN

Rating: 4 (3 votes)
Description:
When Eddie dies, trying to save a child from a terrible accident, he wakes up in heaven. Heaven, he discovers, is a place where your life on earth is finally explained to you. It is explained by five people, friends or strangers, who somehow affected your life - and who changed its path forever.



4518.

The Foghorn Echoes by Danny Ramadan EN

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Country: Asia / Syria flag Syria
Description:
"A sweeping and mesmerizing story that spans time and mortal space so expertly and elegantly." —Alan Cumming A deeply moving novel about a forbidden love between two boys in war-torn Syria and the fallout that ripples through their adult lives. Syria, 2003. A blooming romance leads to a tragic accident when Hussam’s father catches him acting on his feelings for his best friend, Wassim. In an instant, the course of their lives is changed forever. Ten years later, Hussam and Wassim are still struggling to find peace and belonging. Sponsored as a refugee by a controlling older man, Hussam is livi... continue
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4519.

The Following Story by Cees Nooteboom EN

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Country: Europe / Netherlands flag Netherlands
Description:
A writer of travel books, Herman Mussert, goes to bed one night in Amsterdam and wakes up in a Lisbon hotel in the very room where 20 years earlier he slept with another man's wife. Is he dead, or dreaming, or travelling backwards through time? A surrealistic tale by the author of The Knight Has Died.

4520.

The Forbidden Woman by Malika Mokeddem EN

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Country: Africa / Algeria flag Algeria
Description:
After the war of independence against France, an Algerian woman returns to her village to discover the revolution is being betrayed. Moslem fundamentalists are turning back the clock on women's rights.