Tropic of Violence

The Last Brother book by Nathacha Appanah, Graywolf Press is the publisher for 208 pages Fiction book. In The Last Brother by Nathacha Appanah, 1944 is coming to a close and nine-year-old Raj is unaware of the war devastating the rest of the world. He lives in Mauritius, a remote island in the Indian Ocean, where survival is a ...

The Illegal book by Lawrence Hill, HarperCollins is the publisher for 400 pages Fiction book. Keita Ali is on the run. Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Kei ...

The Swallows of Kabul book by Yasmina Khadra, Anchor is the publisher for 208 pages Fiction book. Set in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, this extraordinary novel "puts a human face on the suffering inflicted by the Taliban" (San Francisco Chronicle), taking readers into the seemingly divergent lives of two couples— ...

Leapfrog book by Guillermo Rosales, New Directions Publishing is the publisher for 144 pages Fiction book. The “prequel” to Rosales’s “tragically beautiful and unforgettable” (Los Angeles Times) Cuban-American novel The Halfway House Leapfrog depicts one summer in the life of a very poor young boy in Havana ofthe late � ...

The Enigma of the Return book by Dany Laferrière, MacLehose Press is the publisher for 240 pages Fiction book. "An affecting meditation on loss and exile" ANGEL GURRIA-QUINTANA, Financial Times Windsor Laferrière left Haiti in fear of his life. He has lived in Montreal for thirty-three years, and when his father dies in New York, him ...

The Unseen World: A Novel book by Liz Moore, W. W. Norton & Company is the publisher for 416 pages Fiction book. The moving story of a daughter’s quest to discover the truth about her beloved father’s hidden past. Ada Sibelius is raised by David, her brilliant, eccentric, socially inept single father, who directs a computer science ...

Around the World in Eighty Days book by Jules Verne, Feedbooks is the publisher for N.A pages N.a book. ...

Eldorado book by Laurent Gaude, MP Publishing is the publisher for 261 pages Fiction book. A moving fable about luck, persistence, and hope, grounded in the often tragic reality of modern-day immigration, by the winner of the 2004 Prix Goncort. Captain Salvatore Piracci has sailed along the Italian coast for the la ...

Underworld book by Don DeLillo, Simon and Schuster is the publisher for 832 pages Fiction book. A finalist for the National Book Award, Underworld is Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel—“a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle). Underworld is a story of ...

Toilers of the Sea book by Victor Hugo, 谷月社 is the publisher for N.A pages Literary Collections book. A WORD WRITTEN ON A WHITE PAGE Christmas Day in the year 182- was somewhat remarkable in the island of Guernsey. Snow fell on that day. In the Channel Islands a frosty winter is uncommon, and a fall of snow is an event. On th ...

Katerina book by James Frey, Simon and Schuster is the publisher for 320 pages Fiction book. From the New York Times bestselling author of A Million Little Pieces and Bright Shiny Morning comes Katerina, James Frey’s highly anticipated new novel set in 1992 Paris and contemporary Los Angeles. A kiss, a touch. A smi ...

Les Rébellions francophones book by Ethmane Sall, Editions Orizons is the publisher for 288 pages Literary Criticism book. L'émergence des poétiques de la difformité chez des écrivains africains et caribéens a considérablement changé les champs littéraires francophones. Ainsi sont nées des littératures de la démesure. Grâce aux Armes ...

L'empire colonial français : de l'histoire aux héritages - XXe-XXIe siècles book by Hubert Bonin, Armand Colin is the publisher for 432 pages History book. Aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la France s’est affirmée comme une grande puissance coloniale (Maghreb, Afrique, Asie, Océanie). Elle a été marquée par une politique d’expansion inscrite dans son histoire politique, écono ...

Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes book by Maria Boletsi,Janna Houwen,Liesbeth Minnaard, Springer Nature is the publisher for 312 pages Social Science book. This collection rethinks crisis in relation to critique through the prism of various declared ‘crises’ in the Mediterranean: the refugee crisis, the Eurozone crisis, the Greek debt crisis, the Arab Spring, the Palestinian ...

Ruth's Journey book by Donald McCaig, Simon and Schuster is the publisher for 384 pages Fiction book. “Exquisitely imagined, deeply researched . . . brings to the foreground the most enigmatic and fascinating figure in Gone with the Wind. This is a brave work of literary empathy by a writer at the height of his powers, who ...

A Well-tempered Heart book by Jan-Philipp Sendker, Other Press, LLC is the publisher for 320 pages Fiction book. The sequel to the international best-selling novel The Art of Hearing Heartbeats. Almost ten years have passed since Julia Win came back from Burma, her father’s native country. Though she is a successful Manhattan lawyer, ...

Nagasaki book by Éric Faye, Gallic Books is the publisher for 96 pages Fiction book. In a house on a suburban street in Nagasaki, meteorologist Shimura Kobo lives quietly on his own. Or so he believes. Food begins to go missing. Perturbed by this threat to His orderly life, Shimura sets up a webcam to monitor ...

Reframing Postcolonial Studies book by David D. Kim, Springer Nature is the publisher for 278 pages History book. “Reframing Postcolonial Studies addresses the urgent issues that Black Lives Matter has raised with respect to everyday material practices and the frameworks in which our knowledge and cultural heritage are conceptualized a ...

Genie and Paul book by Natasha Soobramanien, Myriad Editions is the publisher for 240 pages Fiction book. One morning in May 2003, on the cyclone-ravaged island of Rodrigues in the Indian Ocean, the body of a man washes up on the beach. Six weeks previously, the night Tropical Cyclone Kalunde first gathered force, destruction of ...