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by Sunjeev Sahota
Published Feb 2017
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by Patrick Kingsley
Published Jan 2017
Read ReviewsIn the humane tradition of Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers comes a searing account of the international refugee crisis.
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by Sunil Yapa
Published Oct 2016
Read ReviewsThe Flamethrowers meets Let the Great World Spin in this electrifying debut novel set amid the heated conflict of Seattle's 1999 WTO protests.
by Vu Tran
Published Aug 2016
Read ReviewsA thrilling and cinematic work of sophisticated suspense and haunting lyricism, set in motion by characters who can neither trust each other nor trust themselves.
by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Published Apr 2016
Read ReviewsWinner of 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. A startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent fiction: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War
by John Vaillant
Published Jan 2016
Read ReviewsAn unforgettable, page-turning survival story recounted by Hector, a man trapped—perhaps fatally—inside a tanker truck during an illegal border crossing.
by Nadifa Mohamed
Published Jun 2015
Read ReviewsFrom one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, a stunning novel illuminating Somalia's tragic civil war
by Kenneth Bonert
Published Sep 2014
Read ReviewsA thrilling ride through the life of one fumbling young hero, The Lion Seeker is a glorious reinvention of the classic family and coming-of-age sagas.
by Elizabeth Strout
Published Apr 2014
Read ReviewsElizabeth Strout "animates the ordinary with an astonishing force," wrote The New Yorker on the publication of her Pulitzer Prize–winning Olive Kitteridge. The San Francisco Chronicle praised Strout's "magnificent gift for humanizing characters." Now the acclaimed author returns with a stunning novel as powerful and moving as any work in ...
by Naomi Benaron
Published Oct 2012
Read ReviewsRunning the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions.
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