Subscribe via RSS 2.0by McNally Robinson - Wednesday May 14 2008 5:07 pm
Shelagh writes:
I have read and enjoyed the following titles:
Tiny Dancer, The Swallows of Kabul, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Veronika Decides to Die, Into the Wild, The Alchemist, Sleeping with Schubert, The Time Traveler's Wife, A Blade of Grass, River of the Brokenhearted, A Complicated Kindness, The Birth House, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and P.S. I Love You.
What would you recommend?
Chris Hall, who looks after our fiction and literature section, has the following recommendations....
The Septembers of Shiraz by . Set in Iran after their revolution, it tells the story of a man arrested and wrongly accused of spying, told from his perspective as well as that of his wife who is searching for him.
Sweetness in the Belly by . Set in Ethiopia in the 1980s, this is the story of a British woman and her attraction to both a Muslim man as well as Islam. The author is Canadian.
Half of a Yellow Sun by . This novel is set in the tumultuous decade of the 60s in Nigeria, as seen through the stories of five characters. It won the Commonwealth Prize for best book out of Africa.
The Lizard Cage by . Connelly is another Canadian novelist. Her novel is about a political prisoner in Burma. It describes both his daily struggle to survive in prison as well as his memories of his life before his arrest. A very powerful book.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by . At first read, this book tells a deceptively simple story in the form of a conversation that takes place in a café in Lahore between a Pakistani man and an American man. But the novel stays with the reader because of the real story it tells: that of the clash of ideologies now occurring in the world.
The Sirens of Baghdad by . A novel by the same author as The Swallows of Kabul and The Attack. The Sirens of Baghdad is the third in this trilogy.
You may also want to visit some of the reviews written by our very own Joan Marshall, who recommends several titles that are similar to the ones you've enjoyed so far.
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| By Ami Mckay - $22.00 - add to cart | |
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| By Cecilia Ahern - $10.99 - add to cart | |
Holly and Gerry had the perfect life. Happily married, living in Dublin close to their friends and family, and with a brilliant social life, they had the world at their feet. Or so they thought. W...
| By Dalia Sofer - $14.95 - add to cart | |
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| By Camilla Gibb - $21.00 - add to cart | |
Lilly, the main character of Camilla Gibb’s stunning new novel, has anything but a stable childhood. The daughter of English/Irish hippies, she was “born in Yugoslavia, breast-fed in the Ukraine, w...
| By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - $21.00 - add to cart | |
Winner of the 2007 Orange Prize for Fiction.With her award-winning debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was heralded by the Washington Post Book World as the “21st century daughte...
| By Mohsin Hamid - $17.95 - add to cart | |
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| By Yasmina Khadra - $15.95 - add to cart | |
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