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  • Stone Dreams

    A Novel-Requiem

    by Akram Aylisli ...
    Translated by Katherine E. Young ...
    Series series Central Asian Literatures in Translation
    Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professional intrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.Set during the last years of the Soviet Union, Stone Dreams tells the story of Azerbaijani actor Sadai Sadygly, who lands in a Baku hospital while trying to protect an elderly Armenian man from a gang of young Azerbaijanis. Something of a modern-day Don Quixote, Sadai has long battled ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Stoning of Soraya M.

    A Story of Injustice in Iran

    by Freidoune Sahebjam ...
    Translated by Richard Seaver ...
    Soraya M.’s husband, Ghorban-Ali, couldn’t afford to marry another woman. Rather than returning Soraya’s dowry, as custom required before taking a second wife, he plotted with four friends and a counterfeit mullah to dispose of her. Together, they accused Soraya of adultery. Her only crime was cooking for a friend’s widowed husband. Exhausted by a lifetime of abuse and hardship, Soraya said ... Read more

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  • The Cairo Trilogy

    Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street; Introduction by Sabry Hafez

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by William Maynard Hutchins, Olive E. Kenny, Lorne M. Kenny, Angele Botros Semaan ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series
    Nobel Prize-winner Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt—Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street—together in one volume.The masterwork of the Nobel Prize-winning author, the three novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life ... Read more

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  • Honor

    A Novel

    by Elif Shafak ...
    An honor killing shatters and transforms the lives of Turkish immigrants in 1970s London in this novel from the author of The Island of Missing Trees (a Reese's Book Club pick)Internationally bestselling Turkish author Elif Shafak’s new novel is a dramatic tale of families, love, and misunderstandings that follows the destinies of twin sisters born in a Kurdish village. While Jamila stays to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • My Forbidden Face

    by Latifa ...
    Latifa was born into an educated middle-class Afghan family in Kabul in 1980. She dreamed of one day of becoming a journalist, she was interested in fashion, movies and friends. Her father was in the import/export business and her mother was a doctor.Then in September 1996, Taliban soldiers seized power in Kabul. From that moment, Latifa, just 16 years old became a prisoner in her own home. Her ... Read more

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  • Celestial Bodies

    by Jokha Alharthi ...
    Translated by Marilyn Booth ...
    This winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize and national bestseller is “an innovative reimagining of the family saga . . . Celestial Bodies is itself a treasure house: an intricately calibrated chaos of familial orbits and conjunctions, of the gravitational pull of secrets" (The New York Times Book Review).In the village of al-Awafi in Oman, we encounter three sisters: Mayya, who ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Midaq Alley

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From Zaita the cripple-maker to Kirsha the hedonistic cafe owner, from Abbas the barber who mistakes greed for love to Hamida who sells her soul to escape the alley, from waiters and widows to politicians, pimps, and poets, the inhabitants of Midaq Alley ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The President's Gardens

    by Muhsin Al-Ramli ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    One Hundred Years of Solitude meets The Kite Runner in Saddam Hussein's Iraq."A contemporary tragedy of epic proportions. No author is better placed than Muhsin Al-Ramli, already a star in the Arabic literary scene, to tell this story. I read it in one sitting".Hassan Blasim, winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for The Iraqi Christ.On the third day of Ramadan, the villa... ... Read more

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  • The Quarter

    by Naguib Mahfouz ...
    Translated by Roger Allen ...
    Series series Saqi Bookshelf
    Meet the people of Cairo's Gamaliya quarter. There is Nabqa, son of Adam the waterseller who can only speak truths; the beautiful and talented Tawhida who does not age with time; Ali Zaidan, the gambler, late to love; and Boss Saqr who stashes his money above the bath. A neighbourhood of demons, dancing and sweet halva, the quarter keeps quiet vigil over the secrets of all who live there. This ... Read more

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  • Savushun

    A Novel About Modern Iran

    by Simin Daneshvar ...
    Translated by M. R. Ghanoonparvar ...
    Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes images of Persepolis and pre-Islamic monuments, the great poets, the shrines, Sufis, and nomadic tribes within a historical web of the interests, privilege and influence of foreign powers; corruption, incompetence and arrogance of persons in authority; ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Honour Killing

    Stories of Men Who Killed

    by Ayse Onal ...
    Honour killing persists across the Middle East, where regimes refrain from tackling primitive traditions for fear of sparking unrest. Ayse Onal interviewed imprisoned men in Turkey convicted of killing their mothers, sisters and daughters. The result is a revealing and ultimately tragic account of ruined lives - both the victims' and the killers' - in a country where state and religion conspire to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Baghdad Clock

    Winner of the Edinburgh First Book Award

    by Shahad Al Rawi ...
    Translated by Luke Leafgren ...
    Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2018This number one best-selling title in Iraq, Dubai, and the UAE is a heart-rending tale of two girls growing up in war-torn BaghdadBaghdad, 1991. The Gulf War is raging. Two girls, hiding in an air raid shelter, tell stories to keep the fear and the darkness at bay, and a deep friendship is born. But as the bombs continue to fall and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD