- Location(s): Saudi Arabia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): mid 1930s to late 1950s
Jordanian-born attorney Munif, former editor of the Baghdad-based monthly Oil and Development , brings his epic Cities of Salt trilogy full circle in its closing volume. Cities of Salt and The Trench , set in the Sultanate of Mooran...
- Location(s): Bogota
- Genre(s): Short Stories, In Translation
- Era(s): Modern
A constellation of short stories illustrates the complex, interrelated lives of women in and around Bogotá, Colombia. In six subtly connected vignettes, Variations on the Body explores the obsessions, desires, and idiosyncrasies of women and girls from every level...
- Location(s): Jordan, Amman
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): early 21st century
Hawa is a child of the grinding hardship of a Palestinian refugee camp. She has had to survive the camp itself, as well as the humiliation and destruction of an abusive family life. But now, later in life, something...
- Location(s): Mexico City
- Genre(s): Crime, Noir, Thriller
- Era(s): 1970s
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a riveting noir thriller about a daydreaming secretary and a lonely enforcer – and the missing woman they are both seeking. 1970s Mexico City: while student protests and...
- Location(s): Sardinia (Sardegna), Rome
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Late 20th Century
Inspector Aurelio Zen has a problem: the impossible murder of an eccentric billionaire, recorded on the closed-circuit video of Oscar Burolo’s top-security Sardinian fortress. Officials in a high government ministry want someone – anyone – to blame, and they...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Novella
- Era(s): 1933
It is the summer of 1933. Set against a backdrop of the sparkling Venetian lagoon, young and naïve Irma Lietzen, the pretty and indulged daughter of a Budapest businessman, is being taken to see the world by her parents....
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Novella, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Scottish art historian Livy arrives in Venice for a short break before picking up a cruise. The last person she expects to meet is Sebastian, the handsome half Italian, half Scottish guy she first met and fell for at...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Venice Tales is the first comprehensive collection of short-stories on Venice by Italian authors. The book encompasses a broad chronological span, beginning from the Middle Ages (Boccaccio), through to the early modern period (Sansovino), the Enlightenment (Casanova, Goldoni), to...
- Location(s): Venice
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1899
Everything was a puzzle, everything a trap set to mystify and hinder me. . . 1899. As the new century approaches, English hack-writer Evelyn Dolman marries Laura Rensselaer, the daughter of a wealthy American plutocrat. But in the midst...
- Location(s): Bordeaux
- Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
When Gilles Principaux walks into Maître Susane’s law office seeking representation for his wife, his presence triggers memories from her childhood she had long buried. Gilles’s wife is charged with drowning their three children and the media are circling...
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