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Living with an Iraqi immigrant uncle and devoted dog, and working as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, 39-year-old Sirine finds her life turned upside down by a handsome Arabic literature professor.

Ansary charms readers with colorful stories of his life in Afghanistan and America, showing what it is like to belong to two very different cultures. His mother was Finnish-American, and his father was an Afghan from a distinguished family.

Three fragile, yet determined people are drawn by their competing desires to the same small house in the California hills, and become dangerously entangled in a relentlessly escalating crisis.

In 1839, some fifty thousand British forces entered Afghanistan possessed of the certainty that they would replace the Amir with someone less hostile toward their ally. Three years later, the sole survivor of the original vast contingent rode out of the Afghan mountains into India.

Captured by enemy forces, Yu Yuan, a Chinese army officer serving in Korea in 1951, takes on the role of interpreter due to his proficiency in English; a role that places him in a conflict between his fellow prisoners and their captors.

Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, two couples on opposite sides of the religious conflict are brought together in a story of absurd cruelty and transcendent love, involving the stoning of an adulterous woman.

A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and chronicles their difficulty melding into American life.

Over the course of a single summer, 13-year-old Miles O’Malley, copes with the trials of growing up, his infatuation with the girl next door, bickering parents, and his fear that his life is slipping away from him.

Reading Lolita in Tehran is the astonishing true story of young women who met in secret each week to read and talk about forbidden Western classics — and their lives and loves — in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A young forensic anthropologist is sent by an international human rights group to her homeland, Sri Lanka, to discover the source of the organized campaigns of murder engulfing the island.

The devastation of Afghanistan during the
Soviet war- set during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan follows Dastaguir, an elderly man who witnesses the destruction of his village and the deaths of his family.

After living for three months with the Kabul bookseller, Norwegian journalist Seierstad penned this astounding portrait of a nation recovering from war, undergoing political flux, and mired in misogyny and poverty.