Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence

7 best books like Year of the Elephant: A Moroccan Woman's Journey Toward Independence (Leila Abouzeid): Baking Cakes in Kigali, Dreaming in Cuban, Bee Season, حوار مع صديقي الملحد, The Fury, Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Little Mountain

Baking Cakes in Kigali

Author	Gaile Parkin
ISBN	0385343434

Once in a great while a debut novelist comes along who dazzles us with rare eloquence and humanity, who takes us to bold new places and into previously unimaginable lives. Gaile Parkin is just such a talent—and Baking Cakes in Kigali is just such a novel. This gloriously written tale—set in modern-day...

Dreaming in Cuban

Author

Cristina García

Here is the dreamy and bittersweet story of a family divided by politics and geography by the Cuban revolution. It is the family story of Celia del Pino, and her husband, daughter and grandchildren, from the mid-1930s to 1980. Celia's story mirrors the magical realism of Cuba itself, a country of beauty...

Bee Season

Author	Myla Goldberg
ISBN	0385498802

Eliza Naumann, a seemingly unremarkable nine-year-old, expects never to fit into her gifted family: her autodidact father, Saul, absorbed in his study of Jewish mysticism; her brother, Aaron, the vessel of his father's spiritual ambitions; and her brilliant but distant lawyer-mom, Miriam. But...

حوار مع صديقي الملحد

Author

مصطفى محمود

رد على أسئله لملحدين على الدين الإسلامي, رد رائع بالدلائل والأمثله يجيب عن تساؤلات عقلنا فى فترة ما نمر بها ويرد بها على الآخرين الماديين.

صديقى رجل...

The Fury

Author	L.J. Smith
ISBN	0061059919

I can't say anything about this series I haven't already said.

I love it.

The end.

♥.

Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood

Author	Fatema Mernissi
ISBN	0201489376

This "wonderful and enchanting" memoir tells the revelatory true story of one Muslim girl's life in her family's French Moroccan harem, set against the backdrop of World War II (The New York Times Book Review).

"I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco..."

So begins Fatima Mernissi...

Little Mountain

Author	Elias Khoury
ISBN	0312427166

The slow and painful reading of this book was an unsettling experience that is to the author's credit. Focused on the war that erupted in the streets of Beirut in the 1970s and the changes this wreaks on three different characters, it is the perhaps the best I have read about warfare in giving the reader...