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Ivan and Phoebe

Ivan and Phoebe

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Ivan and Phoebe chronicles the lives of several young people involved in the Ukrainian student...

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele: A Novel

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An extraordinary novel about one of history’s most reviled figures For three decades, until the...

My Pen is the Wing of a Bird

My Pen is the Wing of a Bird

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My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird is a landmark collection: the first anthology of short fiction by...

Minor Detail

Minor Detail

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Based on true events this novel is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory. Minor Detail...

No Windmills in Basra

No Windmills in Basra

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Recalling the long tradition of Arabic folktales and the magical realism of Latin America, the...

Grey Bees

Grey Bees

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In Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces, there lies a...

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1937 Japan government railway poster

Tokyo Express

Author: Seichō Matsumoto

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Sta

Night Train to Lisbon

Night Train to Lisbon

Author: Pascal Mercier

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius, a 57-year-old Classics scholar, on a journey that t

Ears of wheat from below with a bright blue sky and clouds

I'm Not Scared

Author: Niccolò Ammaniti

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny

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