Cultural Heritage
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Ethan Frome & Summer
$14.00 Read moreA pair of masterly short novels, featuring an introduction by Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Anything Is Possible and My Name Is Lucy Barton
Thought Edith Wharton is best know- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Wharton, Edith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757287
- Language: English
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Masks
$16.95 Add to cartA stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-i… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Enchi, Fumiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 12 1983
- ISBN10: 0394722183
- Language: English
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The Gift
$16.00 Add to cartConsidered by many to be the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. – An interweaving of the effects of life and memory, tradition and heritage, upon art, the book tells of Fyodor Godunov-Ch… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 07 1991
- ISBN10: 0679727256
- Language: English
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Shilappadikaram: (The Ankle Bracelet)
$14.95 Read moreThe peerless young Kalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan M稘havi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikar… [more below]
- Author: Adigal, Prince Ilangô
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0811200019
- Language: English
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Two Women in One
$14.95 Read moreBahiah Shaheen, an eighteen-year-old medical student and the daughter of a prominent Egyptian public official, finds the male students in her class coarse and alien. Her father, too, seems to belong t… [more below]
- Author: Saadawi, Nawal El
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 086356691X
- Language: English
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At the End of the Matinee
$14.95 Add to cartBestselling author Keiichiro Hirano offers a timeless ode to love’s fragility and its resilience in this delicate, award-winning novel.
Classical guitarist Satoshi Makino has toured the world and is at
- Author: Hirano, Keiichiro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1542005183
- Language: English
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Silent Winds, Dry Seas
$27.00 Read moreONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR – A sweeping debut novel that explores the intimate struggle for independence and success of a young descendant of Indian indentured laborers in Mauritius, a small … [more below]
- Author: Busjeet, Vinod
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0385547021
- Language: English
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A Girl Called Rumi
$18.00 Read moreA magical journey to a world of mystical delights.” — Deepak Chopra, MD
A Girl Called Rumi, Ari Honarvar’s debut novel, weaves a captivating tale of survival, redemption, and the power of storytelli- Author: Honarvar, Ari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 1942436467
- Language: English
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That Old Country Music: Stories
$17.00 Read moreONE OF BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR – LIBRARY JOURNAL
A collection of short stories of rural Ireland in the classic Irish mode: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the m- Author: Barry, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1101911352
- Language: English
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Ramadan Ramsey
$17.99 Read moreThe Guggenheim Fellowship and Whiting Award-winning author Louis Edwards makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale of a New Orleans boy whose very creation is so filled with tension that it
- Author: Edwards, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0063012049
- Language: English
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Eeg
$26.95 Read moreIn this breathtaking final work, Dasa Drndic reaches new heights. Andreas Ban’s suicide attempt has failed. Though very ill, he still finds the will to tap on the glass of history to summon those impr
- Author: Drndic, Dasa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: April 30 2019
- ISBN10: 0811228487
- Language: English
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White Tears
$18.00 Add to cartA PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD FINALIST
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post – San Francisco Chronicle – NPR – GQ – Time – The Economist – Slate – HuffPost – Book Riot Ghost story, murd- Series: Vintage Contemporaries
- Author: Kunzru, Hari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101973218
- Language: English
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A House Is a Body: Stories
$21.99 Add to cartFinalist for the 2021 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection
“A House Is a Body will not simply be talk
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction- Author: Swamy, Shruti
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 164375145X
- Language: English
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The Interpreters
$16.95 Read moreFrom the first Black winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature–his debut novel about a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to come to grips with themselves and their changing country. First pu… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Soyinka, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 0593467213
- Language: English
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To the End of the Land
$19.00 Read moreNATIONAL BESTSELLER – A stunning novel that tells the powerful story of Ora, an Israli mother, and her extraordinary love for her son, Ofer, in a haunting meditation on war and family.
“One of the few- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Grossman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 09 2011
- ISBN10: 0307476405
- Language: English
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White Dancing Elephants
$16.95 Read moreBest Books of 2018 Kirkus Reviews (debut and short fiction categories)
Best Books of 2018, Entropy Magazine
A Book Club selection for The Wing, Rebel Women’s Lit and Bookish.com
35 over 35 Debut Ficti
- Author: Bhuvaneswar, Chaya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1945814616
- Language: English
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The Other Americans
$25.95 Add to cartNATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST – ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME – Timely, riveting, and unforgettable, The Other Americans is at once a family saga, a murder myst… [more below]
- Author: Lalami, Laila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 26 2019
- ISBN10: 1524747149
- Language: English
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China Room
$17.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
“Sunjeev Sahota’s new novel follows cha
LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S CARNEGIE MEDAL
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE STAR-TRIBUNE- Author: Sahota, Sunjeev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593298225
- Language: English
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Dancing Arabs
$19.00 Add to cartA bild?gsroman suffused with humor and irony, Dancing Arabs centers on a young boy from a poor Arab village, his haphazard receipt of a scholarship to a Jewish boarding school, and the dislocation and… [more below]
- Author: Kashua, Sayed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: April 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0802141269
- Language: English
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In the Belly of the Congo
$18.99 Read moreA Brittle Paper Notable African Book of 2023
A gripping multigenerational novel that explores the history and human cost of colonialism in the Congo. April 1958. Organizing the Brussels World’s Fair,- Author: Ndala, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1635422582
- Language: English
