Showing results for "Migrations" in World Literature

Bloomsbury presents Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa, read by Suzanne Toren. A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel: a Kite Runner for Palestine ‘One of the most thought-provoking books I've read ... written with passion and honesty, and poetry' Daily Mail Mornings in Jenin is a...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'Vivid and empowering' GILLIAN ANDERSON 'A stunning book’ BERNARDINE EVARISTO ‘Dazzling’ TARA WESTOVER ‘A story about hope, imagination and resilience’ GUARDIAN An award-winning, inspiring memoir of family, education and resilience...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2026 A GUARDIAN ‘BOOK TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2026’ OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK TIME MUST-READ BOOK WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE ‘Majumdar...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024 Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, as a vicious civil war tears through her hometown of Jaffna, her dream takes her on a different path as she sees those around her, including her four...

'A book to underline endlessly, to carry around until battered, and then to tell all your friends to buy because you're too reluctant to give up your own copy. A wonder’ Polly Barton 'Brings a welcome freshness of vision and a dashing style … provocative and illuminating' The Spectator...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 'A deeply humane and genre-defying work of love and … hope’ OCEAN VUONG ‘Beautiful, brilliant’ R. F. KUANG ‘Dazzling’ OBSERVER ‘Will shatter your heart’ GLAMOUR ‘Powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES An extraordinary story of the journey of one...

'This fantastically strange, explosive debut novel entrances even as it unsettles. It's so brilliantly written' BUZZFEED Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be...

In this powerful and unflinching novel, Amma Darko lays bare the hidden struggles of Ghanaian women in the 1980s, revealing the complex choices they face in pursuit of dignity and independence. When young Efia is sent from her rural village to work as a housemaid in Accra, she dreams of a better...

Brought to you by Penguin. When Catalina, a witty, vulnerable and beautiful Ecuadorian student, arrives at Harvard, she feels like one of the chosen. She is a miracle child who has escaped death in Latin America to be raised by undocumented grandparents and now studies at the most prestigious...

Corazon, Angel and Donita have all come to Singapore to work for a living. The thing that unites them? Their labour must remain unseen. But when a friend is accused of murdering her employer, everything changes. The accused could be any of them; they all know the stories of women who were scapegoated or even executed for crimes they didn’t commit. Each woman has secrets to keep, yet they must gather every ounce of bravery, fearlessness and complete audacity to clear the name of one of their own.

Arab American Book Award Winner 2021 Aspen Words Literary Prize Finalist 2020 Athenaeum Literary Award Finalist 2020 Palestine Book Awards Winner Longlisted for Rathbones Folio Prize “Susan Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior; she looks into the darkest crevices of lives, conflicts...

'A polyphonic exploration of memory, diaspora and sound' ROMALYN ANTE 'A kaleidoscope of image and word-power . . . A vital addition to the canon' MAGGIE HARRIS 'A work of rare formal daring and spiritual depth' PETER GIZZI From the T. S. Eliot Prize-winning author of Sonnets for Albert comes a...

**** When Chancey and Tommy Luu came to Australia, they believed they were building something secure for their daughters: a life safer and steadier than the one they'd left behind. But in 2005, as riots erupt across Sydney, that security has started to crack – especially when ten-year-old...

#1 New York Times Bestseller OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK “Extraordinary.”—Stephen King “This book is not simply the great American novel; it’s the great novel of las Americas. It’s the great world novel! This is the international story of our times. Masterful.”—Sandra Cisneros...

'A fable becoming reality of a woman becoming herself: Tehila Hakimi's Hunting in America just purely bangs' Joshua Cohen An Israeli woman relocates to America on assignment from her tech company. In an attempt to leave her past behind and adapt entirely to the new culture in which she finds...

‘Both epic in its sweep and haunting in its intimacy, Musa weaves a profound tapestry of resilience, inheritance, and hope’ Riz Ahmed * * * * An extraordinary and beautiful novel about how understanding our past can pave the way for a hopeful future. Hyderabad, 1946 Ashraf is asleep in her...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE ‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN ‘Blistering’ THE TIMES 'A delight' DIANA EVANS ‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT 'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES An electrifying, hilarious and deeply moving tragicomic debut novel following a Jamaican...

Flucht aus dem Iran und der Kampf um Identität und Anerkennung Seit 1979, mit dem Sturz des Schahs, sind die Töchter der hochgestellten iranischen Familie Valiat im amerikanischen Exil. Nur ihre Mutter, die noch immer Heimat, Tradition und Stolz verkörpert, blieb damals in Iran. Als bei dem...

Unser Deutschlandmärchen ist eine Familiengeschichte in vielen Stimmen. Frauen mehrerer Generationen und der in Almanya geborene Sohn erinnern sich in poetischen, oft mythischen, kräftigen Bildern und in Monologen, Dialogen, Träumen, Gebeten, Chören. Dinçer Güçyeter erzählt vom Schicksal türkischer Griechen, von archaischer Verwurzelung in anatolischem Leben und von der Herausforderung, als Gastarbeiterin und als deren Nachkomme in Deutschland ein neues Leben zu beginnen.

Brought to you by Penguin. Faced with the prospect of having to repeat a year in school, twelve-year-old Milan tells his parents the first lie he can think of: his bad grades are due to the genocide in Rwanda, his mother's homeland. In reality, he knows little about Rwanda or his mother's past...