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Interlink World FictionThe best way to learn about people and places far away.
This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but were not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English. "Interlink World Fiction is now the most important collection of Arabic literature in translation in the English-speaking world." --Robert J. Sullivan, professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Metamorphoses, a journal of translation | |
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 A Bit of Difference
Sefi Atta
PAPERBACK EDITION NOW AVAILABLE. A new novel from the winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for African Literature At thirty-nine, Deola Bello, a Nigerian expatriate in London, is dissatisfied with being...
$25.00
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 Ali and His Russian Mother
Alexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman
A FRESH, DARING VOICE IN ARABIC LITERATURE TODAY Alexandra Chreiteh's Ali and his Russian Mother is at once an ordinary and extraordinary story of two young people in Lebanon. At the outbreak of the July War in 2006, the novel's u...
$15.00
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 All That's Left to You
A novella and other stories
Ghassan Kanafani; translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed; introduction by Roger Allen
It should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles… While all these writers dis...
$12.95
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 Always Coca-Cola
Alexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman
The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from Lebanon Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine...
$15.00
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 Another Sea, Another Shore
Stories of Iranian Migration
Shouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi Khorrami
In today’s world, with its often fluid national borders, many outstanding literary works have given voice to the life experience of immigrants, whose very being challenges traditional notions of national identity and culture. The recent immigra...
$15.00
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 At the Wall of the Almighty
Farnoosh Moshiri
"I know that I'm in the hallways of El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this guard is taking me from my solitary confinement — the Black Box — to cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this...
$16.00
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 B as in Beirut
Iman Humaydan Younes; translated by Max Weiss
ForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award -Gold 2008, Translation Fiction
The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut dur...
$15.00
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 Balcony over the Fakihani, A
Liyana Badr; translated by Peter Clark with Christopher Tingley
The title story of Liyana Badr’s remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black Septe...
$12.95
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 Ben Barka Lane
Mahmoud Saeed; translated by Kay Heikkinen
FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF AWARD-WINNING NOVEL BANNED IN IRAQ In Ben Barka Lane we see the Morocco of the late 1960s through the eyes of a young political exile from Iraq—its beauty and misery, its unforgettable people. In...
$15.00
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 Bleeding of the Stone, The
Ibrahim al-Koni; translated by May Jayyusi and Christopher Tingley
The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he...
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 Blue Has No South
Alex Epstein; translated by Becka Mara McKay
"Their love story ended many years ago. He still writes her name as a solution to crossword puzzle clues of suitable length."
Alex Epstein’s miniature stories are indeed love stories, puzzles, stray clues to puzzles he neve...
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 Book of the Sultan's Seal, The
Strange Incidents from History in the City of Mars
by Youssef Rakha; translated from the Arabic by Paul Starkey
WINNER OF THE 2015 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZEIt’s hard to imagine a debut more thrilling than Youssef Rakha’s groundbreaking The Book of the Sultan’s Seal. The novel is made up of nine chapters, each cen...
$19.95
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 Cages on Opposite Shores
Janset Berkok Shami
Set in Istanbul, this novel tells the story of Meral, a modern-day Turkish woman searching for identity and renewal after leaving her husband of 11 years. Living among the dusty artifacts in the deserted rooms of her deceased mother's house, Mera...
$11.95
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 Calligrapher's Secret, The
Rafik Schami; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
A new international bestseller from the award-winning author of The Dark Side of Love
In the narrow streets of the old city of Damascus, a rumor is circulating: Nura, the beautiful wife of the famous calligrapher Hamid Farsi, has...
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 Children Who Sleep by the River, The
Debbie Taylor
Four generations of African women: baby Tendai lies waiting to be born in her mother Beauty's womb; Beauty, pregnant for the first time and fearful of witches' spells, returns from the tobacco fields to her native village and to her mother Mi...
$24.95
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 Daily Assortment of Astonishing Things and Other Stories, The
The Caine Prize for African Writing 2016
Various
THE LEADING AFRICAN LITERARY AWARD, KNOWN AS THE AFRICAN BOOKER, NAMED AFTER THE BOOKER PRIZE FOUNDER, MICHAEL CAINE Now entering its seventeenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is Africa’s leading literary prize, and is awa...
$16.95
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 Damascus Nights
Rafik Schami; translated by Philip Boehm
A reissue of Rafik Schami's award-winning novel
In the classical Arab tradition of tale-telling, here is a magical book that celebrates the power of storytelling, delightfully transformed for modern sensibilities by an award-winning au...
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 Dark Side of Love, The
Rafik Schami; translated from the German by Anthea Bell
Independent Publisher Book Awards 2010, Gold Medal Winner - Multicultural Fiction
An international bestseller available in English for the first time,a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture...
$24.00
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 Dawning, The
Milka Bajic-Poderegin; translated by Nadja Poderegin
The Dawning is a family saga which evolves against the turbulent background of the town of Plevlje (on the confines of Bosnia and Herzegovian) as it emerges from five centuries of enslavement in the wake of the collapse of the Turkish and Au...
$14.95
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 Days of Miracles and Wonders, The
An Epic of New World Disorder
Simon Louvish
The Days of Miracles and Wonders is Louvish's most ambitious novel to date, ranging across history's follies, past and present. From his tomb in Fontevraud, the Crusader King Richard the Lionheart rises to face the modern world at th...
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