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A war photographer wakes up dead in Colombo and has seven days to solve his own murder while navigating the Sri Lankan afterlife.
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Here Goes Nothing
A murdered man watches from a chaotic afterlife as his killer moves in with his pregnant widow, while a pandemic sweeps the world he left behind.
Damned
Madison Spencer, the thirteen-year-old daughter of film stars, wakes up in Hell, which turns out to be run like a corrupt, bureaucratic high school, and sets out to make the best of it.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Baghdad junk dealer stitches together body parts that come alive as a creature seeking justice.
Lincoln in the Bardo
In February 1862, President Lincoln visits the crypt of his eleven-year-old son Willie, and a chorus of ghosts who refuse to admit they are dead watch the boy linger in the bardo.
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.
Bliss
Harry Joy, an advertising man in an Australian city, is dead for nine minutes after a heart attack, and when he comes back he decides he is in Hell.
Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
Ximen Nao, a landowner executed in the land reform of 1950, protests his innocence in hell and is sent back to his village as a donkey, then an ox, a pig, a dog and a monkey, to watch China change over fifty years.
Shame
In a country that is and is not Pakistan, two feuding politicians' families are bound by marriage to a girl whose blushes of shame turn into violence.
Beyond Black
Alison Hart, a professional medium working the dead-end towns around London's orbital motorway, hires a brittle assistant named Colette, while the spirit guides of her childhood refuse to leave her alone.
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.
The Sympathizer
A communist spy captured after the fall of Saigon writes a confession that becomes a searing meditation on identity, loyalty, and the American war in Vietnam.
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.