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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.
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The Woman from Tantoura
A Palestinian woman narrates her life from the 1948 Nakba through decades of displacement.
Cities of Salt
In a desert oasis in an unnamed Gulf kingdom in the 1930s, Americans arrive looking for oil, and the oasis, its people and their way of life are swept away.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.
Minor Detail
In 1949 Israeli soldiers rape and kill a Bedouin girl in the Negev, and decades later a woman in Ramallah becomes obsessed with the crime and tries to reach the place it happened.
Miramar
At a faded pension in Alexandria kept by an old Greek woman, four men take turns telling the story of Zohra, the young country girl who works as the maid.
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.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.
Beijing Coma
Dai Wei, a student shot in the head in Tiananmen Square in 1989, lies in a coma for ten years, aware of everything, remembering the protests while China changes around him.
The Garden of Evening Mists
Yun Ling Teoh, a judge who survived a Japanese labour camp, goes up to the Cameron Highlands in 1951 to ask Aritomo, once gardener to the Emperor of Japan, to make a garden in memory of her sister.
The Brothers
In Manaus, the Lebanese-Brazilian twins Yaqub and Omar, sent apart as boys, grow into rivals, as told by the son of the family's maid.
The Changeling
Kogito Choko, an ageing novelist, listens night after night to the tapes left by his brother-in-law, a famous film director who has jumped from a building, and tries to understand why.
One Man's Bible
A Chinese writer in exile, in a Hong Kong hotel room with a German lover, remembers his life through the Cultural Revolution.