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Trade Paperback : $15.99 Buy	28 Stories of AIDS in Africa Stephanie Nolen Walker & Company “This is a formidable book of record…from the tiny virus, via twenty-eight individual human stories, to an entire continent. The stories will tear you apart...

Trade Paperback : $18.00 Buy	Accidents A Novel Yael Hedaya Picador For Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter--winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Age of Orphans A Novel Laleh Khadivi Bloomsbury USA Told with an evocative richness of language that recalls Michael Ondaatje or Anita Desai, the story of Reza Khourdi is that of the 20th century everyman, cast...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Be My Knife A Novel David Grossman; Translated from the Hebrew by Vered Almog and Maya Gurantz Picador "A transformative work of art . . . As the love affair moves toward its denouement certain passages demand to be reread, as if one can't believe the pure, intuitive truth they contain."—*The New York Times Book Review*

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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black

And Other Stories

Nadine Gordimer Farrar, Straus and Giroux

"[This] newest collection of stories, Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, finds Gordimer poking at embers of the fire that has fueled her work since the very beginning, more than half a century ago: politics, both racial and sexual; our responsibilities to unknown (and perhaps unknowable) others; and, especially, the dangers of delving into history without adequate preparation . . . Nadine Gordimer is more interesting, and provocative, than most."—The Washington Post

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Beirut 39 New Writing from the Arab World Samuel Shimon, Amin Maalouf, and Tahar Ben Jelloun Bloomsbury USA Beirut is the 2009 World Book Capital, as designated by UNESCO, and at the center of the festivities, in collaboration with the world-renowned Hay Festival, is...

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Black Mamba Boy

A Novel

Nadifa Mohamed Picador

Yemen, 1935. Jama is a “market boy,” a half-feral child scavenging with his friends in the dusty streets of a great seaport. For Jama, life is a thrilling...

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Trade Paperback : $14.99 Buy	Bliss A Novel O. Z. Livaneli St. Martin's Griffin Fifteen-year-old Meryem lives in a rural village in Eastern Anatolia, Turkey. Her simple, conventional way of life changes dramatically after her uncle, a...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	The Book of Intimate Grammar A Novel David Grossman; Translated by Betsy Rosenberg Picador Aron Kelinfeld is the ringleader among the boys in his Jerusalem neighborhood, but as his 12-year-old friends begin to mature, Aaron remains imprisoned in the...

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The Book of Secrets

A Novel

M. G. Vassanji Picador

In 1988, a retired schoolteacher named Pius Fernandes receives an old diary found in the back room of an East African shop. Written in 1913 by a British...

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Born Under a Million Shadows

A Novel

Andrea Busfield St. Martin's Griffin

"Former journalist Busfield first traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to cover the fall of the Taliban. Her first novel presents the aftermath of that event through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy . . . Readers who like to explore other cultures and current events through fiction will find here an intriguing picture of contemporary Afghanistan. Extras for book clubs are appended."—Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati State Technical & Community College, Library Journal

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Butterfly Burning

A Novel

Yvonne Vera Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

"A remarkable novel . . . Keen, vivid. The author's political sense, her critique of colonialism, is intrinsic, never intrusive . . . Vera writes gracefully, depicting with extraordinary elegance the chaos and disorder of township life, the surreal conditions of existence imposed by colonial authority upon the residents."—Michelle Cliff, The Village Voice Literary Supplement

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Cion

A Novel

Zakes Mda Picador

"Takes the traditional pattern of a picaresque novel—an episodic recounting of roguish schemes gone awry—and decorates it with a richly textured overlay of embroidery, applique, collage and found art . . . Mda writes about hardscrabble lives without dwelling on the hardscrabble . . . Mda's elegant patchwork of clever storytelling, wry characterization and good-natured humor is more than enough."—John R. Alden, The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

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Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	City Gates Elias Khoury; Translated by Paula Haydar Picador Drawing on the traditions of Arabic storytelling, Elias Khoury's fable of displacement, first published in Arabic in 1981, follows a stranger as he arrives in a gated city and wanders through its labyrinthine streets in search of the city's future—and his own.

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The Civilized World

A Novel in Stories

Susi Wyss Holt Paperbacks

A glorious literary debut set in Africa about five unforgettable women—two of them haunted by a shared tragedy—whose lives intersect in unexpected and...

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Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	Close Sesame A Novel Nuruddin Farah Graywolf Press Paper Farah's landmarkVariations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship trilogy is comprised by the novels Sweet and Sour Milk, Sardines, and Close Sesame. In...

Trade Paperback : $14.00 Buy	The Dark Child The Autobiography of an African Boy Camara Laye; Introduction by Philippe Thoby-Marcellin; Translated by James Kirkup and Ernest Jones Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa, French Guinea. Long regarded Africa's preeminent...

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Dawn

A Novel

Elie Wiesel; with a new preface by the author Hill and Wang

“The author…has built knowledge into artistic fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review Elisha is a young Jewish man, a Holocaust survivor, and an Israeli...

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Eden

A Novel

Yael Hedaya; Translated by Jessica Cohen Metropolitan Books

From the head writer of the original In Treatment, an exquisite novel of the maturation of a girl, a family, and an entire community Eden is no paradise: it...

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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

A Novel

Hilary Mantel Picador

When Frances Shore moves to Saudi Arabia, she settles in a nondescript sublet, sure that common sense and an open mind will serve her well with her Muslim...

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An Elegy for Easterly

Stories

Petina Gappah Faber and Faber, Inc.

"Petina Gappah's stories range from scathing satire of Zimbabwe's ruling elite to earthy comedy to sensitive accounts of the sufferings of humble victims of the regime. Gappah is a fine writer and a rising star of Zimbabwean literature."—J. M. Coetzee

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Trade Paperback : $19.95 Buy	Exit Wounds Rutu Modan Drawn and Quarterly Set in modern-day Tel Aviv, a young man,Koby Franco, receives an urgent phone call from a female soldier. Learning that his estranged father may have been a...

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Gate of the Sun

Elias Khoury; Translated by Humphrey Davies Picador

"Readers can no longer pretend that Palestine is merely a fugitive state of mind, a convenient Arab myth, a traumatic tribal memory, and somebody else's problem. This remarkable novel out of Lebanon, a skillful reshuffling of the 1001 Nights with a doctor in a refugee camp playing the part of Scheherazade, fills in the blank spaces on the Middle Eastern map in our Western heads."—John Leonard, Harper's Magazine

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Trade Paperback : $13.95 Buy	The Genizah at the House of Shepher A Novel Tamar Yellin St. Martin's Griffin Winner of the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature (Jewish Book Council) Winner of the 2006 Ribalow Prize (Hadassah Magazine), Shortlisted for the...