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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
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A change of speaker can change what counts as the problem. These novels give different accounts and perspectives room to expose conflicting loyalties, private needs and unequal power. Some...
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Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
Funny, Tender & Strange Fiction From Central and Eastern Europe
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Start with a newspaper obituary writer and his penguin, a Prague paper baler with a soft spot for books, or a friendship with a formidable housekeeper. Each of these works in English translation...
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Enemies-to-Lovers Romance Books Where the Grudge Makes Sense
Enemies-to-Lovers Romance Books Where the Grudge Makes Sense
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An insult at a dance can spoil a first impression. A promotion only one person can get can turn a colleague into an adversary. The couples in these enemies-to-lovers romance books have something...
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Iranian Books About Private Life & Public Boundaries
Iranian Books About Private Life & Public Boundaries
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A crush in a shared family garden, new neighbors across the street in Abadan, and a love story with lines crossed out give these books three ways into private life. Start with a family satire or a...
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Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
Victorian Novels With a Sharp Eye for Money and Respectability
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The drawing rooms have accounts to settle. These Victorian novels follow money through marriages, inheritances, jobs and households, exposing the distance between respectable appearances and...
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Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
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Historical fiction offers far more than one war or one continent. These novels range from classical Athens and Pompeii to Ming China, Mughal India, East Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, with...
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Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
Nineteenth-Century Novels Beyond Britain
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Meet the nineteenth century through Brazilian tenements, Shanghai courtesan houses, colonial Philippine institutions, Warsaw commerce, South African farm life and other distinctive social worlds...
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Pakistani Fiction About Lives Beyond the Headlines
Pakistani Fiction About Lives Beyond the Headlines
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A family argues about marriage in Karachi. A reporter tries to fit a social life around her assignments. A boy travels through the borderlands. These novels and stories follow private lives...
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Irish Novels Beyond the Usual Literary Landmarks
Irish Novels Beyond the Usual Literary Landmarks
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Go from a shirt factory in a Northern Irish border town to a festival weekend in Ballina and a graveyard in Connemara. These novels make a particular place feel lived in, whether the town is real...
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Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
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Start with The Borrowed if you want detective fiction that moves backward through decades of Hong Kong history. For a different way into a city, try Notes of a Crocodile, with its Taipei students...
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Crime Novels Where the Place Changes the Investigation
Crime Novels Where the Place Changes the Investigation
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Place matters most to an investigation when it changes what can be found, who can be reached and whose account is trusted. These crime novels use distance, transport, weather, housing, land...
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Sri Lankan Fiction With Different Views of the Same Island
Sri Lankan Fiction With Different Views of the Same Island
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Start with the households in Funny Boy or Reef for coming-of-age stories told on an intimate scale. Uprooted and The Jam Fruit Tree move into village and Burgher family life, while The Seven Moons...
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Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
Bangladeshi Fiction About Home, History and Everyday Life
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A girl paints patterns in a Bangladeshi village, a Dhaka mansion hides a family secret, and a school project in Ireland makes two girls argue over who gets to sell henna. These novels and stories...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
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A street can divide neighbours, a river can carry a family history, and a new route can change what a landscape is for. These 30 novels give place that kind of consequence. Their settings shape...
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