Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Lift the veil of legend for the untold story of Makeda, the Queen of Sheba, and Bathsheba, wife and mother of Israel's first kings. When Makeda, the slave-born daughter of the chieftain of Saba, comes of age, she wins her freedom and inherits her...

A woman in 1980s Korea struggles to understand her identity and live an authentic life in the face of injustice.Author: Kim YideumISBN-10: 1941920772ISBN-13: 9781941920770Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2019Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

**Included in World Literature Today's "75 Notable Translations of 2016"****One of Literary Hub's Books to Read this May****One of Asbury Park Press Books to Read this Summer**This long-awaited English-language debut from Morocco's most prominent contemporary writer won the Prix Gouncourt de Nouvelles, France's most...

A Middle Eastern heart-of-darkness tale that flows like a dream ... crackling with razor-sharp humor.--The New York TimesAt the dawn of the 20th century, a young Lebanese explorer leaves the Levant for the wilds of Africa, encountering an eccentric English colonel in Sudan and...

"So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first pages."--ISABEL ALLENDESpanning four generations of a mixed-race family, Mostly White is a powerful tale of inter-generational trauma and the healing brought by wildness, music, and the resilience of women. From Emma, who survives the...

"A psychologically and emotionally astute family portrait, with dark themes like racism, cancer and the bittersweet longing of the immigrant." --New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice "Nunez has created a moving and insightful character study while delving into the complexities of identity politics....

When Grace de Silva's once-prominent family loses their vast tea estate, she has little idea how everyone's life in her lush, Eden-like homeland of Sri Lanka is about to change. Her children dream of escape--Jacob, the eldest, wants desperately to go to England; Thornton...

It's 1911. Tazia survives fire, and she's unwed, pregnant and Italian in America.Tazia, a pregnant seventeen-year-old Italian immigrant and survivor of the Triangle Waist Company fire, flees New York, leaving her married lover to think she miscarried the baby he urged her to abort....

Ruby, a curious little girl, engages the reader in a wonderful dialogue with her mother. "I Love the Skin I'm In ", uniquely expresses rhythmic responses to curious questions about skin color. The book creates a beautiful rainbow of harmonious expressions of tolerance, self...

Princess Belle is the Princess of Haiti. It is time for the annual All Nations Princesses Tea Party to be held in Haiti. Princess Belle does not want to attend the tea party because she believes she is not pretty enough to go. She...

Honorable Mention, 2015 San Francisco Book FestivalFinalist, 2013 Foreword Reviews' Book of the Year Award "Set in Los Angeles in 1980, Chow depicts how each woman must face the parts of their lives that do not measure up... this story is touching in its...

Twenty-six years ago, an Emirati college student named Nora met a handsome Kuwaiti poet and the two fell in love. But marriages in the United Arab Emirates are arranged by parents, and Nora's future was already decided.Promised in marriage to a distant cousin, Nora...

"Aharon Appelfeld is one of the subtlest, most unorthodox, and most exactingly perceptive novelists to make the memory of the Holocaust his abiding project." --Philip Gourevitch, The New Yorker A lonely older man and his devoted young caretaker transform each other's lives in ways...

Carmel has everything she never imagined she could have, so what could possibly be wrong?Carmel has finally escaped her miserable life in Ireland and is truly happy for the first time in her life. She has a wonderful husband, a rewarding career, and she...

Sixty years in the making and the capstone of a monumental literary career, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi: A Day in the Life is the final volume of the autobiographical trilogy from the author who is considered Borges' heir and the vanguard of the...

Now available after over four decades, the first collection of short fiction from bestselling author and Barbadian-born Canadian luminary Austin Clarke -- winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and the Trillium Book Award for his novel The Polished Hoe --...

A Times Book of the Year, 2019 THE SECOND WORLD WAR IS OVER. BUT THE WORLD IS FAR FROM SAFE. As victorious Russian troops sweep across East Prussia, a group of desperate children face a new battle. Confronted by critical food shortages and the...

Six thousand years ago, in the time before the first megaliths and stone circles, Druids appeared in small numbers throughout Europe. They began an inexplicable migration toward the Western Isles of Scotland. Among these was a Druid prophet, Lazwin. Lazwin predicted the coming of...

"It is impossible to resist this novel's wit, grace, and charm." --Lauren Groff, author of The Monsters of Templeton and Arcadia A smart and slyly funny tale of love, temptation, confusion, and commitment; a triumphant and beautifully executed recasting of Edith Wharton's The Age...

The acclaimed national and international bestseller"Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish."--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series"An all-consuming work of literary fantasy that is breathtaking both for its beauty and its suspense."--BookPage, starred reviewA captivating and romantic...

A captivating debut fantasy inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess, Chang'e, in which a young woman's quest to free her mother pits her against the most powerful immortal in the realm and sets her on a dangerous path--where choices come with...

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A love letter to sisterhood, Frank Sinatra, late-in-life romance, and the enduring ties of family. The book's narrator calls to mind a Boston-Irish Olive Kitteridge, as peppery as she is big-hearted.--Sally Koslow, author of The Widow Waltz and The Late, Lamented Molly MarxMimi Malloy...

When shots ring out on the Grand Trunk Road in the fictional Pakistani city of Zamara, Nargis's life begins to crumble around her. Soon her husband--and fellow architect--is dead and, under threat from a powerful military intelligence officer, she fears that a long-hidden truth...

In a museum far from home, a lawyer stumbles across a painting of a woman he once knew, Irene. Decades before, he had become entangled in her affairs when he was called on to settle a dispute between her husband, who had commissioned the...

Fawzia returns home to Jeddah in 1978, after attending college in Lebanon, and takes up secretly with her forbidden college sweetheart. When her reckless behavior leads to family tragedy, she is drawn to an unlikely friendship with a mysterious old storyteller, the niece of...

With a setting based on Hawai'i and Polynesian culture, this historical fiction has a plot that both adults and young adults will find intriguing. Hooked by the Stars travels back and forth through time and weaves together the quest of two young girls. The...

A passionate novel of unstoppable physical obsession amongst a group of Brussels eurocrats, Illegal Liaisons offers a fascinating insight into the first Polish generation that is truly 'free', but struggle to know where the boundaries of that freedom lie. Plebanek's characters have to negotiate...

Sky of Red Poppies begins with a casual friendship between two schoolgirls coming of age in a politically divided 1960's Iran under rule of the Shah. Roya, the daughter of a prominent family, is envious of the fierce independence of her religious classmate Shireen....

These slyly simple stories of the unforgiving South African Transvaal reveal a little-described (and rarely romanticized) world of Afrikaner life in the late 19th Century. Like our own Mark Twain, Herman Charles Bosman wields a laughing intolerance of foolishness and prejudice, a dazzling use...

An angry mayor and civic authorities impose a narrow vision of the future on a working class neighbourhood. It's the 1960s, Lowertown, Ottawa, and the future is rolling into Canada's capital. The technocrats have plans for spiralling highways and dazzling glass towers. Religion, community,...

New York Times Notable Book of the Year "An imposingly rich and realistic novel, a genuine masterwork" that vividly captures the Palestinian experience following the creation of the Israeli state (New York Times Book Review) After Palestine is torn apart in 1948, two men...

Spare and haunting, whimsical and contemplative snapshot-stories that reveal an unfamiliar Israel by remapping its blind spots.Author: Oz ShelachISBN-10: 0872864197ISBN-13: 9780872864191Publisher: City Lights BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2003Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 6.80h x 4.40w x 0.40dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2003 pg. 426

Reyes C rdova is a young boy tired of being poor and feeling hopeless. He is a descendant of religious and starry-eyed settlers from Spain that came to C bola seeking a fortune but found nothing but an inhospitable climate and an unstable relationship...

A woman disappears without a trace. The police commissioner investigating the case enquires: was she of dubious morals, was she the rebellious sort? Nobody understands how a woman could simply walk away, leaving husband and home behind. After all, in the Kingdom of Oil...

By turns bleak, nostalgic, and lighthearted, Jerusalem Stands Alone explores the interconnected lives of its mostly Palestinian cast. This series of quick moving vignettes tells the story of occupied Jerusalem--tales of the daily tribulations and personal revelations of its narrators. The stories, entwined around...

Mosul, Iraq, in the 1940s is a teeming, multiethnic city where Arabs, Kurds, Assyrians, Jews, Aramaeans, Turkmens, Yazidis, and Syriacs mingle in the ancient souks and alleyways. In these crowded streets, among rich and poor, educated and illiterate, pious and unbelieving, a boy is...

Written by a beloved American author who grew up in the foothills of the Appalachians, these twenty-one short stories explore the daily lives and activities of Kentucky mountaineers. Life, animate existence, absorbs Jesse Stuart. Never is it more vital than when juxtaposed with death,...

In a series of brilliant variations, William Gass presents a man's life--futile, comic, anarchic--arranged in an array of vocabularies, altered rhythms, forms, and tones, with music as both theme and structure. It begins in Graz, Austria, in 1938, when Joseph Skizzen's father pretends to...

Thirteen passengers are stranded at an airport. Tokyo, their destination, is covered in snow and all flights are cancelled. To pass the night they form a huddle by the silent baggage carousels and tell one another stories. Thus begins Rana Dasgupta's Canterbury Tales for...

Robert Antoni has established himself as one of the most innovative voices to emerge from the Caribbean and the Americas. His ambitious third novel, Carnival, takes us on an expedition that stretches from contemporary New York City to the glitter of Trinidadian Carnival, and...

"The most unexpected second book by a writer of note to appear in years...an engrossing story of brotherly division."--John Freeman, Boston Globe The much-anticipated debut novel from National Book Award "5 under 35" author Josh Weil, whom Colum McCann lauded as one of "the...

One of the most acclaimed and powerful novels of modern Turkey is set across Europe, but retains the Turkish-Kurdish conflict at its heart A mixture of thriller, love story, political, and psycho-philosophical novel, this is a sobering, coruscating introduction to the potentially explosive situation...

With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims."A brilliant novel in every way.... [It] shimmers with artistic certainty." --The New York Times...

Easily the most controversial antislavery novel written in antebellum America, and one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century, Uncle Tom's Cabin is often credited with intensifying the sectional conflict that led to the Civil War. In his introduction, David Bromwich places Harriet...

Twelve-year-old Aaron Broom is protecting his father's car from repossession when he witnesses a jewelry store robbery gone wrong. To Aaron's shock, his father, a struggling salesman in the wrong place at the wrong time, is fingered as the prime suspect in the murder....

Almost a year after the death of his wife, former high-tech executive Ian finds a letter that will change his life. It contains Kate's final wish-a plea for him to take their ten-year-old daughter, Mattie, on a trip across Asia, through the countries they...

Once they had a country, a culture, a future. Today, upheaval and betrayal have turned their world upside down. And for one family-a U.S. war hero, his deeply religious wife, and their impressionable fourteen-year-old son-a new struggle has just begun. Mano Suarez made a...

1890. Yamamoto Kiyoki is a Japanese art student, dreaming of studying in Paris with the inspiring and vibrant Impressionist painters. Yamamoto Ryusei is Kiyoki's father. Ryusei's art, carving intricate masks for traditional Japanese theater, has been his refuge from loneliness since the death of...