Books like Granada
In Granada after its fall to Ferdinand and Isabella, a family of Muslim bookbinders lives through the burning of their books and the forced conversions that follow.
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Segu
In the late eighteenth century, the family of Dousika Traore, a nobleman of the Bambara kingdom of Segu in what is now Mali, is scattered by Islam, the slave trade and colonialism.
The Woman from Tantoura
A Palestinian woman narrates her life from the 1948 Nakba through decades of displacement.
Leo Africanus
Hasan al-Wazzan, born in Granada before its fall, tells his life: exile to Fez, travels through Africa, capture by pirates and a new life in Rome under the protection of the Pope.
Cane River
Drawn from the author's own family, the lives of four generations of women of colour along the Cane River in Louisiana, from Elisabeth, born into slavery, to her great-granddaughter Emily, across a century.
Celestial Bodies
Three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi, Mayya, Asma and Khawla, marry and live through their country's changes, from the last years of slavery to the coming of oil money.
Noli Me Tángere
Crisostomo Ibarra comes home to Manila after seven years studying in Europe to find that his father has died in prison, and that the friars of his town are set against him.
Palace Walk
In Cairo at the end of the First World War, the merchant al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad rules his wife and children with an iron hand at home while spending his nights in music and drink.
The Harafish
The saga of the al-Nagi family, generations of champions and villains who rise and fall as protectors of a Cairo alley, beginning with Ashur, a foundling raised by a blind sheikh.
Homegoing
Two half-sisters born in eighteenth-century Ghana never meet: Effia marries a British slaver and lives in comfort at Cape Coast Castle, while Esi is imprisoned in its dungeons and shipped to America, and the novel follows their descendants, one chapter each, to the present.
The Covenant of Water
In Kerala from 1900 to the 1970s, a twelve-year-old girl married to a widower she has never met founds a family that loses someone to drowning in every generation, and her granddaughter grows up to become a doctor determined to find out why.
Samarkand
The story of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, from the poet's life in eleventh-century Samarkand to the hunt for his lost manuscript, which ends up aboard the Titanic.
The Emigrants
In 1850 a group of poor Swedish farmers and outcasts from Småland sell what they own and cross the Atlantic towards the promise of Minnesota land.