- Location(s): Iran, Tehran
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Poetry
- Era(s): Contemporary
The Torkashvand family reveres their seemingly immortal patriarch, Agha, the trunk of their widely branching, family tree. When we come to the story, Agha is so old that he spends his days sitting in the family orchard, drinking tea...
The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda
- Location(s): Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1934
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to...
- Location(s): India, Norway
- Genre(s): Fiction, Crime, In Translation
- Era(s): early 2000s
When perpetual bachelor Gunder Jomann goes to India for two weeks and comes home married, the town of Elvestad is stunned. On the day the Indian bride is supposed to arrive, the battered body of a woman is found...