Books like 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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Grey Bees
Sergey Sergeyich, a beekeeper, is one of only two people left in a village in the grey zone between the Ukrainian army and the separatists in Donbas, and in spring he sets off with his hives to find somewhere quiet.
The Waters
On an island in a Michigan swamp lives Hermine Zook, an old herbalist the town calls Herself, who cures men's ailments, and the lives of her three daughters and her small granddaughter, Dorothy, play out in the town across the water.
Chronicle in Stone
A boy grows up in Gjirokastër, a city of stone in southern Albania, during the Second World War, as Italians, Greeks and Germans take turns occupying it.
The Question of Bruno
Stories of Bosnia and exile, among them the novella Blind Jozef Pronek and Dead Souls, about a young Bosnian stranded in Chicago when the war begins.
House of Day, House of Night
A woman settles in a village in the Sudeten mountains on the Polish-Czech border and gathers the stories of her neighbours, its saints and its dead.
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.