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A Baghdad junk dealer stitches together body parts that come alive as a creature seeking justice.
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The Republic of Wine
A special investigator is sent to Liquorland to look into reports that officials are cooking and eating baby boys, and is drunk almost as soon as he arrives.
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)
Raja, a philosophy teacher in his sixties, lives in Beirut with his formidable mother, and tells their story through Lebanon's civil war and everything after.
Arabian Nights and Days
Mahfouz picks up the Thousand and One Nights where Shahrazad stops, with the sultan's killing over and the people of the city crossing paths with genies and magic.
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
A war photographer wakes up dead in Colombo and has seven days to solve his own murder while navigating the Sri Lankan afterlife.
The Tin Drum
A boy born with a scream that can shatter glass drums his way through the horrors of Nazi Germany, refusing to grow up in a world not worth being adult in.
Beauty Is a Wound
Dewi Ayu, a beautiful prostitute, rises from her grave after twenty-one years in a town on the coast of Java, and her story and her daughters' run through Indonesia's colonial past and its massacres.
Cain
After killing his brother Abel, Cain is condemned to wander and slips through time into the Old Testament's great episodes, from the sacrifice of Isaac to the Tower of Babel and Noah's ark, questioning every act of divine cruelty he sees.
A Thousand Ships
The Trojan War told by its women, from the Trojan queens waiting on the shore to be taken as slaves to Penelope writing increasingly sharp letters to her absent husband.
Gate of the Sun
In a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Khalil, a self-taught doctor, tells stories to Yunis, an old Palestinian fighter lying in a coma.
The Devil in Silver
Pepper, a big, hot-tempered moving man, is committed to New Hyde, a psychiatric hospital in Queens, for a seventy-two hour hold after a scuffle with police, and learns that something with a bull's head walks the ward at night.
A Case of Exploding Mangoes
In 1988 Ali Shigri, a junior officer in the Pakistani air force whose father was found hanged, plots to kill President Zia, who is about to die in a plane crash anyway.
Heart of a Dog
A stray dog in 1920s Moscow is surgically transformed into a human, and the resulting creature becomes a savage satire of the New Soviet Man.