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  • The Book of Disappearance

    A Novel

    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Series series Middle East Literature In Translation
    What if all the Palestinians in Israel simply disappeared one day? What would happen next? How would Israelis react? These unsettling questions are posed in Azem’s powerfully imaginative novel. Set in contemporary Tel Aviv forty eight hours after Israelis discover all their Palestinian neighbors have vanished, the story unfolds through alternating narrators, Alaa, a young Palestinian man who ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sleep Thief

    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Translated by Sinan Antoon ...
    The experimental first novel from International Booker-Prize longlisted Palestinian author Ibtisam Azem, rails against the commodification of suffering, and dreams of a Palestinian identity that will transcend sorrow. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Sleep Thief

    by Ibtisam Azem ...
    Narrated by Peter Ganim ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    From Booker-longlisted Ibtisam Azem, a haunting odyssey where rest must be stolen at high price, and “Palestine” is a honeyed defiance on the tongue.“Sleep thief is what the interrogator called me. I’ll never forget that. I would steal a few seconds of sleep so I could remain steadfast before them. The name stuck; I even dreamt about it, the same dream, night after night. I woke up not knowing ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Palestine - 1

    Stories from the eve of the Nakba

    by Mazen Maarouf, Selma Dabbagh, Ahmad Jaber, Anwar Hamed, Mahmoud Shukair, Liana Badr, Lina Meruane, Abdalmuti Maqboul, George Abraham, Yara El-Ghadban, Ibtisam Azem, Sonia Sulaiman, Basma Ghalayini ...
    How can literature respond to a genocide. Is it even possible to write fiction after witnessing the horrors inflicted on Gaza?The contributors to Palestine - 1 attempt to answer this question, ignoring the lie that history began in October 2023, and addressing the great crime that underpins the entire occupation: the invasion and systematic annihilation of Palestine in 1948, displacing over 750 ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

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    Stories from a Century After the Coup

    by Fereshteh Ahmadi, Leila Elder, Peter Adrian Behravesh, Alireza Abiz, Caroline Croskery, Farzaneh Doosti, Ebrahim Farokh, Behzad Ghadimi, Navid Hamzavi, Naseem Jamnia, Porochista Khakpour, Nasim Marashi, poupeh missaghi, Susan Niazi, Jim Preacher, Mohammad Tolouei, Sholeh Wolpé, Behnam Yousefpour ...
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    Iran +100 poses a simple question to 10 Iranian authors: What might Iran look like in the year 2053, a century after the coup that overthrew the democratically-elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, strengthened the US-aligned Shah and led, through revolt and counter-revolt, to the current authoritarian regime? After decades of international isolation, and internal political struggle, not ... Read more

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  • Heart Lamp: Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize

    by Banu Mushtaq ...
    Translated by Deepa Bhasthi ...
    In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humour, these portraits of family and community tensions have garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India's most prestigious ... Read more

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  • Every One Still Here

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    by Liadan Ní Chuinn ...
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  • The White Book

    by Han Kang ...
    Translated by Deborah Smith ...
    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a s... ... Read more

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  • I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

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    by Irene Solà ...
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  • The Crustacean

    The spiky revenge narrative from Lolita's perspective

    by Jang Jinyeong ...
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  • Carrion Crow

    by Heather Parry ...
    **There are some things only your mother can teach you . . .In this viscerally strange and dark, queer Victorian gothic, longing and transformation take wing through the secret selves we nurture when no one is watching.“A fetid feast of body horror and delirium." —Booklist**Marguerite Périgord is locked in the attic of her family home, a towering Chelsea house overlooking the stinking Thames.For ... Read more

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  • Six Stories

    by Stefan Zweig ...
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