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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.
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An Unnecessary Woman
Aaliya Saleh, seventy-two and alone in her Beirut apartment, has translated a book a year into Arabic for fifty years and shown them to no one.
The Woman from Tantoura
A Palestinian woman narrates her life from the 1948 Nakba through decades of displacement.
A God in Ruins
The companion to Life After Life follows a bomber pilot through World War II, exploring the heroism and trauma of the men who flew and the families who waited.
Too Much Lip
Kerry Salter, a Bundjalung woman on a stolen motorbike with warrants out, comes home to northern New South Wales to farewell her dying grandfather, and finds the mayor planning a prison on sacred land.
May We Be Forgiven
Harry Silver, a Nixon scholar, sleeps with his brother's wife, and within weeks his brother George's life explodes, leaving Harry to look after his house, his children and his dog.
Gate of the Sun
In a makeshift hospital in the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Khalil, a self-taught doctor, tells stories to Yunis, an old Palestinian fighter lying in a coma.
Mostly Dead Things
After her father's death, Jessa-Lynn Morton takes over the family taxidermy shop in Tampa, while her mother starts posing the stuffed animals in explicit tableaux and her brother falls apart.
Frankenstein in Baghdad
A Baghdad junk dealer stitches together body parts that come alive as a creature seeking justice.
The Story of Zahra
Zahra, a young woman scarred by her childhood in Beirut, comes home from Africa as the civil war begins, and starts an affair with a sniper.
The Yacoubian Building
The residents of a once-grand apartment block in downtown Cairo, from an ageing aristocrat to the doorman's son who joins the Islamists, live out the corruption of modern Egypt.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.
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.