Books like Men in the Sun
Three Palestinian refugees of different ages pay a smuggler to get them across the desert from Basra to Kuwait inside the empty tank of a water truck.
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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.
Woman at Point Zero
Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison for killing a man, tells a psychiatrist the story of her life.
Barren Lives
Fabiano, a cowherd, his wife Sinha Vitória, their two sons and their dog Baleia wander the drought-stricken backlands of north-east Brazil looking for work.
Wandering Star
Esther, a Jewish girl hiding with her mother in a mountain village in the south of France in 1943, sets out after the war for Palestine, where her path briefly crosses that of Nejma, a Palestinian girl bound for a refugee camp.
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.
The Thief and the Dogs
Said Mahran walks out of a Cairo prison determined to take revenge on his wife, who left him for his accomplice, and on the mentor who betrayed his ideals.
Desert
Two stories braided together: the Blue Men of the Sahara driven north by French colonial troops in 1909 and 1910, and Lalla, a girl descended from them, growing up decades later in a shantytown on the Moroccan coast.
Meek Heritage
The life of Juha Toivola, a poor, slow-witted Finnish cottager born in the famine years of the 1860s, who drifts through hardship toward the civil war of 1918.
The Pearl
Kino, a poor pearl diver on the Gulf of California, finds the Pearl of the World and believes it will pay for a doctor for his baby son, Coyotito.
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.
Broken April
On the seventeenth of March, Gjorg Berisha, a young man of the Albanian highlands, kills the man who killed his brother, as the ancient code demands, and has thirty days of truce before he will be killed in turn.
Ethan Frome
A visiting engineer pieces together the story of Ethan Frome, a farmer in a bleak Massachusetts village, his sickly, suspicious wife and her young cousin who came to help keep house.