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A History of the World for Rebels and Somnambulists

Jesus Del Campo

• Paperback | Engels
• From the beginning of the world--when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex, and worker ants--to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, A ... Lees meer

Farewell Fountain Street

Selcuk Altun

• Paperback | Engels
• Ziya Bey has six months left to live. From his mansion on Farewell Fountain Street, the Ottoman aristocrat plans to tie up some questionable business ... Lees meer

My Cleaner

Maggie Gee

• Paperback | Engels
• " My Cleaner is a moving, funny, engrossing book."-- The Observer "Elegant, humorous and surprising, this is a classy performance."-- The Times "Beaut... Lees meer

Cairo Stories

Anne-Marie Drosso

• Paperback | Engels
• Egypt is the setting for this collection, but the stories are universal--whether it's the girl whose mother no longer recognizes her, a young man who ... Lees meer

The Last Prince of Bengal

Lynn Innes

• Paperback | Engels
• The history of an Indian royal family's fall from power in the age of the British Empire. The Nawab Nazim was born into one of India's most powerful r... Lees meer

Memoirs of a Midget

Walter De La Mare

• Paperback | Engels
• "One of the strangest and most enchanting works of fiction ever written."--Alison Lurie Miss M., a pretty young woman with a passion for shells, fossi... Lees meer

The Ice People

Maggie Gee

• Paperback | Engels
• Set in the near future, The Ice People imagines an ice age enveloping the Northern Hemisphere. It is Africa's relative warmth that offers a last hope ... Lees meer

Qissat

• Paperback | Engels
• "A humane, richly rewarding read."-- Vogue "...A treasure for Western readers who want to familiarize themselves with the complexities of both Lebanes... Lees meer

With Borges

Alberto Manguel

• Paperback | Engels
• "This delightful book provides readers a key to more than one secret room of Borges's magical worlds."--Mahmoud Darwish "Alberto Manguel is to reading... Lees meer

The Silence of My Father

Alexandre Najjar

• Paperback | Engels
• Alexandre Najjar's father is celebrated in his legal profession for his rare eloquence. In the courtroom the word is everything, and his work is his l... Lees meer

Povadky

• Paperback | Engels | Short Stories by Women from Around the World
• A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history and legend with everyday reality, a child's reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness... Lees meer

The Old Man and His Sons

Heoin Bru

• Paperback | Engels
• These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied to the sea for sustenance, and a ... Lees meer

The School of War

Alexandre Najjar

• Paperback | Engels
• "A marvelously affecting memoir of the war in Lebanon: perfectly pitched and intensely evocative, and all the more powerful for being seen through the... Lees meer

Songs My Mother Never Taught Me

Selcuk Altun

• Paperback | Engels
• "Altun offers us three delights for the price of one: a brilliantly edgy, witty thriller that rivals Highsmith; a metaphysical puzzle that Borges woul... Lees meer

For Bread Alone

Mohamed Choukri

• Paperback | Engels
• "A true story of human desperation, shattering in its impact."--Tennessee Williams Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks... Lees meer

Jamilia

Chingiz Aïtmatov

• Paperback | Engels
• "The most beautiful love story in the world."--Louis Aragon The Second World War is raging, and Jamilia's husband is off fighting at the front. Accomp... Lees meer

Sabra Zoo

Mischa Hiller

• Paperback | Engels
• Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for Europe and South Asia. A stunning, defiant debut.-- Guardian Hiller brings to his wo... Lees meer

The Lady from Tel Aviv

Al-Madhoun

• Paperback | Engels
• Shortlisted for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction 2010. Will take you to the height of reading pleasure.--Elias Khoury Walid Dahman is going ... Lees meer

Elsewhere Home

Leila Aboulela

• Paperback | Engels
• In her new collection of stories, award-winning New York Times Notable author Leila Aboulela offers us a rich tableau of life as an immigrant abroad, ... Lees meer

The Sultan of Byzantium

Selçuk Altun

• Paperback | Engels
• Altun's prose has a dreamlike urgency--John Ashbery Fighting the Ottoman invaders in Constantinople, Emperor Constantine XI was killed--his body never... Lees meer

Metropole

Ferenc Karinthy

• Paperback | Engels
• "A Central European classic to be discovered and relished."--Eva Hoffman "A stunning novel. Funny, nightmarish and jubilant."-- Libération Although it... Lees meer

About My Mother

Tahar Ben Jelloun

• Paperback | Engels
• Morocco's greatest living author.-- The Guardian UK A writer of social and moral acuteness.-- Los Angeles Times A writer of much originality.-- The Ch... Lees meer

Borrowed Time

Hassan Daoud

• Paperback | Engels
• "Daoud's writing is elegant, laconic and often very funny."-- The Times (London) In a village in Lebanon, an old man--a widower, who feels abandoned b... Lees meer

In Tangier

Mohamed Choukri

• Paperback | Engels
• As I read Choukri's notes, I saw and heard Jean Genet as clearly as if I had been watching a film of him. To achieve such precision simply by reportin... Lees meer