Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the Middle-East
Middle-East (West Asia)
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Martyr!: A Novel
by Kaveh Akbar
Hardcover: Jan 2024
Paperback: Dec 2024
A newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a remarkable search for a family secret that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum. ...
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What the Taliban Told Me
by Ian Fritz
Hardcover: Nov 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost.
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The Message
by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hardcover: Oct 2024
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell—and the ones we don't—shape our realities.
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There Are Rivers in the Sky: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
Hardcover: Aug 2024
In the ancient city of Nineveh, on the bank of the River Tigris, King Ashurbanipal of Mesopotamia, erudite but ruthless, built a great library that would crumble with the end of his reign.
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Nicked: A Novel
by M.T. Anderson
Hardcover: Jul 2024
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Feed comes a raucous and slyly funny adult fiction debut, about the quest to steal the mystical bones of a long-dead saint
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Every Rising Sun: A Novel
by Jamila Ahmed
Hardcover: Jul 2023
Paperback: Jul 2024
In this riveting take on One Thousand and One Nights, Shaherazade, at the center of her own story, uses wit and political mastery to navigate opulent palaces brimming with treachery and the perils of the Third Crusade as her Persian homeland teeters ...
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The Lion Women of Tehran
by Marjan Kamali
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Paperback: Jul 2025
From the nationally bestselling author of the "powerful, heartbreaking" (Shelf Awareness) The Stationery Shop, a heartfelt, epic new novel of friendship, betrayal, and redemption set against three transformative decades in Tehran, Iran.
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The Moon That Turns You Back: Poems
by Hala Alyan
Paperback: Mar 2024
From the author of The Arsonists' City and The Twenty-Ninth Year, a new collection of poetry that traces the fragmentation of memory, archive, and family–past, present, future–in the face of displacement and war.
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Once We Were Home
by Jennifer Rosner
Hardcover: Mar 2023
Paperback: Mar 2024
From Jennifer Rosner, National Jewish Book Award Finalist and author of The Yellow Bird Sings, comes a novel based on the true stories of children stolen in the wake of World War II.
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The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel
by Elif Shafak
Hardcover: Nov 2021
Paperback: Feb 2023
A rich, magical new novel on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
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The Arsonists' City
by Hala Alyan
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Aug 2022
A rich family story, a personal look at the legacy of war in the Middle East, and an indelible rendering of how we hold on to the people and places we call home.
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The Spymaster of Baghdad: A True Story of Bravery, Family, and Patriotism in the Battle against ISIS
by Margaret Coker
Hardcover: Feb 2021
Paperback: Feb 2022
From the former New York Times bureau chief in Baghdad comes the gripping and heroic story of an elite, top-secret team of unlikely spies who triumphed over ISIS.
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