Breaking the Tongue

7 best books like Breaking the Tongue (Vyvyane Loh): The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, The Day of the Locust, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy, Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan, In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

Author	James Weldon Johnson
ISBN	0809000326

James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous publication, a classic of American fiction.

The first fictional memoir ever written by a black person, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured...

The Day of the Locust

Author	Nathanael West
ISBN	0451523482

The Day of the Locust is a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream turned into a sun-drenched California nightmare. Nathanael West's Hollywood is not the glamorous "home of the stars" but a seedy world of little people, some hopeful, some despairing, all twisted by...

Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds

Author	Stephen Kinzer
ISBN	0374528667

If Turkey lived up to its potential, it could rule the world - but will it? A passionate report from the front lines

For centuries few terrors were more vivid in the West than fear of "the Turk," and many people still think of Turkey as repressive, wild, and dangerous. Crescent and Star is Stephen...

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

Author	Amy Chua
ISBN	0399562850

The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home

Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of...

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Author	Robert D. Kaplan
ISBN	0679751238

Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism....

Kabul in Winter: Life Without Peace in Afghanistan

Author	Ann Jones
ISBN	0312426593

Soon after the bombs stopped falling on Kabul, award-winning journalist and women's rights activist Ann Jones set out for the shattered city. This is her trenchant report from the city where she spent the next four winters working in humanitarian aid. Investigating the city's prison for women, retraining...

In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond

Author

Robert D. Kaplan

From the New York Times bestselling author Robert D. Kaplan, named one of the world’s Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine, comes a riveting journey through one of Europe’s frontier countries—and a potent examination of the forces that will determine Europe’s fate in the postmodern...