The Last Brother

Author	Andrew X. Pham
ISBN	0312267177

Catfish and Mandala is the story of an American odyssey—a solo bicycle voyage around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam—made by a young Vietnamese-American man in pursuit of both his adopted homeland and his forsaken fatherland.

Andrew X. Pham was born in Vietnam and raised in California. His...

Author	Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
ISBN	0307961206

From a breathtaking new voice, a novel about a splintered family in Kenya—a story of power and deceit, unrequited love, survival and sacrifice.

Odidi Oganda, running for his life, is gunned down in the streets of Nairobi. His grief-stricken sister, Ajany, just returned from Brazil, and...

Author	Naomi Benaron
ISBN	1616201940

Running the Rift follows Jean Patrick Nkuba, a gifted Rwandan boy, from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life, a ten-year span in which his country is undone by the Hutu-Tutsi tensions. Born a Tutsi, he is thrust into a world where it's impossible to stay apolitical...

Author	Eleanor Morse
ISBN	0670026409

An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat

Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story.

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Mia Couto

As the civil war rages in 1980s Mozambique, an old man and a young boy, refugees from the war, seek shelter in a burnt-out bus. Among the effects of a dead passenger, they come across a set of notebooks that tell of his life. As the boy reads the story to his elderly companion, this story and their own develop...

Author	Catel
ISBN	2203031778

Mariée et mère à 18 ans, veuve aussitôt après, Marie Gouzes
décide ensuite de vivre librement. Elle se fera désormais
appeler Olympe de Gouges. Femme de lettres, fille des
Lumières, libertine et républicaine, Olympe a côtoyé la plupart
de ceux qui ont laissé leur nom...

Author	Jorge Volpi
ISBN	8432216097

¿Quién es Klingsor? Detrás de este nombre en clave se oculta un personaje siniestro, o quizá sólo una leyenda. Los datos disponibles indican que es un científico para quien son familiares la mecánica cuántica, la teoría de la relatividad, las partículas subatómicas, la fisión, pero...

Author	Yossi Klein Halevi
ISBN	0062844938

New York Times bestseller

"A profound and original book, the work of a gifted thinker."--Daphne Merkin, The Wall Street Journal

Attempting to break the agonizing impasse between Israelis and Palestinians, the Israeli commentator and award-winning author of Like Dreamers directly...