Books like Sleepwalking Land
During Mozambique's civil war, an old man, Tuahir, and a boy, Muidinga, take shelter in a burnt-out bus, where the boy finds the notebooks of a dead man, Kindzu, and reads them aloud.
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Confession of the Lioness
In Kulumani, a village in northern Mozambique, lions are killing women, and Archangel Bullseye, a hunter from the city, is sent to kill them, while Mariamar, whose sister was the latest victim, tells her own story.
The Tiger's Wife
Natalia, a young doctor in an unnamed Balkan country after the wars, learns that her grandfather has died far from home, and goes back over the stories he told her of the tiger's wife and the deathless man.
Going After Cacciato
A soldier named Cacciato walks away from the war in Vietnam, saying he is going to Paris, and his squad is sent after him across eight thousand miles.
Augustown
On the day in 1982 when a teacher cuts off six-year-old Kaia's dreadlocks, his great-aunt Ma Taffy remembers the day in 1920 when a preacher was supposed to fly over Augustown in Kingston.
Primeval and Other Times
The village of Primeval, guarded at its four borders by archangels, lives through the twentieth century, from the First World War into the 1980s, as its people and its spirits keep their own time.
Maps
Askar, an orphan raised by Misra, an Ethiopian woman in the Ogaden, grows up as war comes between Somalia and Ethiopia, and between him and the woman who raised him.
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone
Aleksandar, a boy in Višegrad who loves stories and his grandfather, flees to Germany with his family when the Bosnian war comes, and later goes back to look for a girl he once saved.
Sing, Unburied, Sing
Thirteen-year-old Jojo, his toddler sister, and their drug-addicted mother drive across Mississippi to collect his white father from Parchman prison, and the ghost of a boy who died there rides home with them.
The Man with the Compound Eyes
As a vast island of rubbish crashes into the east coast of Taiwan, Alice, a grieving academic, meets Atile'i, a young man from a mythical island who arrived on it.
Man Tiger
Margio, a young man in a seaside village in Java, kills a man, and the village tries to understand why, and whether it was the white tiger that lives inside him.
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 Orphanage
Pasha, a Ukrainian-language teacher in a town in Donbas, crosses the front line in winter to bring his nephew home from a boarding school in occupied territory.