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Salt Houses: A Novel

May 15, 2017

salt

There are plenty of times when fiction ventures into territory that is unfamiliar—in fact, that’s one of the reasons I love it so much. But Salt Houses, the debut novel from Hala Alyan is about a ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, family saga, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Middle East, war

Chronicle of a Last Summer

August 5, 2016

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  Chronicle of a Last Summer is a small book about a big time in modern Egypt. The novel spans from 1984 to 2014, but only as small chapters in the life of a young woman living with her family ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: cultural, Middle East, Random House

Guapa: A Novel

March 21, 2016

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  At 27 Rasa lives with his grandmother in al-Sharqiyeh, a large city in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. He works as a translator for foreign journalists because he speaks fluent English ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, debut, literary, Middle East, Other Press, social issues

The Ambassador’s Wife

August 3, 2015

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Miranda is a free-spirited artist and explorer living in Mazrooq, a country that is not open to either. That she also has a girlfriend makes her the most suspect of women, right up until she meets ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: book clubs, cultural, Doubleday, Middle East

I Saw a Man: A Novel

June 26, 2015

  Michael knew Caroline’s job was dangerous when he married her. As a foreign correspondent her field of interest was the Middle East and while he was also a writer his inspiration came from ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: contemporary life, Middle East, mystery, Nan A. Talese, war

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