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Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is a memoir of a young Moroccan boy's coming of age in a time of extreme poverty and degradation.

아이의 눈을 들여다보며 새로운 시베리아를 발견하다 시베리아에서 입양해 온 아이를 더욱 깊이 알기 위해 시베리아로 여행을 떠난 아버지의 입양 여행기이다. 미국 로스앤젤레스의 변호사이자 작가인 리처드 와이릭은 쉰의 나이에 셋째 아이를 입양한다. 2004년부터 업무차 우크라이나와 시베리아를 오가던 중, 소련 붕괴 후 급증한 고아들을 보며 결심한 일이었다.

Released from an asylum to help with a police enquiry, the quick-witted and foul-smelling narrator delves deep into the underworld of 1970s Barcelona to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl from a convent school, in this hilarious detective romp through seedy underworld Barcelona.

U-il thinks he can fly like his favourite cartoon character Toto the Astroboy. His older sister, eleven-year-old U-mi, is doing her best to look after him since their mother died and their father deserted them. Now all they have are their well meaning but unhelpful neighbors-the Moons, Landlady Grandma, the weightlifting Mr Yi and his squawking widow bird-and despair is leading U-mi to mimic her father’s behavior, abusing the one person closest to her.

A modern classic of Soviet literature, a love story that ranks alongside Turgenev's First Love.

A bestseller in Turkey, this is an uplifting novel about the healing power of cooking set in Paris, New York and Istanbul.

History will changeSarah Lester's mother is missing and the Indian uprising holds her father captive. The police want to question her, and even the church is demanding its pound of flesh. Her return to?The Old Curiosity Shop?raises more questions than answers.Waiting in the shadows is a vengeful Richard Grey. After discovering Sarah’s ability to travel through time, nothing will stop him from restoring his name to its former glory. Not even time.

Yusef is living in Buffalo, New York with a group of Muslim punks. A pot-smoking mohawked Sufi called Jehangir plays the rooftop call to prayer on his electric guitar, while debates rage downstairs about the Quranic sources for Iggy Pop songs.

Short stories at their most moving and immediate; this new collection from prize-winning author Leila Aboulela spans twenty years of her work.

With an introduction by Marlon James, So Many Islands brings together stories from the distant shores of the island communities in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Indian Ocean and Pacific.

Award-winning author Peter Kimani's UK debut: depicts British colonialism in Kenya with wit, intellgience and raw power.

This frank, bold memoir dares to explore the big questions: success and failure, sex, death and parenthood - our animal life.

A lyrical, poweful polemic about London today, from Occupy and the August 2011 riots through to the Jubilee and the Olympics.

A riveting history--the first full account--of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in the 1971 atrocities in Bangladesh that led to war between India and Pakistan, shaped the fate of Asia, and left in their wake a host of major strategic consequences for the world today. Giving an astonishing inside view of how the White House really works in a crisis, "The Blood Telegram" is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan's military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (today an independent Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India--one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Nixon and Kissinger, unswayed by detailed warnings of genocide from American diplomats witnessing the bloodshed, stood behind Pakistan's military rulers. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, Nixon and Kissinger actively helped the Pakistani government even as it careened toward a devastating war against India. They silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military--an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, "The Blood Telegram" tells this thrilling, shadowy story in full. Bringing us into the drama of a crisis exploding into war, Bass follows reporters, consuls, and guerrilla warriors on the ground--from the desperate refugee camps to the most secretive conversations in the Oval Office. Bass makes clear how the United States' embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mold Asia's destiny for decades, and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissinger's hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.

Meet Me in Gaza reveals the pleasures and pains, hopes and frustrations of Gazans going about their daily lives, witnessed and recounted by award-winning writer Louisa Waugh. Interspersed with fascinating historical, cultural and geographical detail, this is an evocative portrait of a Mediterranean country and its people.

Trained as a human mine detector, My Luck, a boy soldier in West Africa witnesses and takes part in unspeakable brutality. At 12 his vocal cords are cut to prevent him from screaming and giving away his platoon's presence, should he be blown up.

오르한 파묵 이후 터키가 배출한 가장 걸출한 문인으로 평가받는 소설가 부르한 쇤메즈의 책 『이스탄불 이스탄불』 은 현재 활동하는 전 세계 작가들 중 가장 유니크한 소설가라 칭송받는 부르한 쇤메즈의 세 번째 소설이자 대표작이다. 잔인하리만큼 고혹적인 도시 이스탄불의 깊디깊은 지하감옥. 시멘트벽으로 구획된 좁디좁은 감방 안에 나이도 직업도 성향도 전혀 다른 네 남자가 함께 갇혔다. 아마도 혁명운동에 연루되었을 것으로 짐작되는 네 남자는 서로의 비밀을 지켜주기 위해, 언제 또 찾아올지 모를 고문의 두려움에 함몰되지 않기 위해 끊임없이 재미난 이야기를 풀어낸다. 흰고래를 찾아 평생 먼바다를 떠돌다 패배한 늙은 어부, 해도(海圖) 위에 가상의 섬을 그린 후 자신이 사랑한 여인의 이름을 지어주는 해도 담당 선원, 기발한 수완으로 강간을 모면하는 수녀, 벽의 거짓말에 속는 외딴마을 사람들, 사람의 영혼을 가진 늑대, 딸의 딸이자 손녀이자 남편의 여동생인 아이와 둘이 살아가는 노파….

Taking us on travels through Europe, and across to the US, this book offers perspectives on literature, geopolitics, East and West. It also says that while the Eastern bloc is gripped by Western modernization, the West is becoming increasingly Sovietized, with Internet banking, speed dating and automatic supermarket checkouts.

The Hungry Ghosts is an exquisite tale of differences and how they can tear apart both a country and the heart - not just once, but many times, until the ghosts are freed. This a haunting and captivating story of longing, family ties and forgiveness from award winning author Shyam Selvadurai.

Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can't stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her.