- Location(s): Europe, Milan
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
From Amazon: Jerry Marlow is on a coach hurtling from Milan to Strasbourg, even though he loathes coaches and everything they stand for:…all the contemporary pieties of getting people together and moving them off in one direction or another...
Even a Daughter Is Better Than Nothing
- Location(s): Ulan Bator / Ulaanbaatar
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): early 2000s
Presents a trip into the depths of Outer Mongolia. This book recounts the author’s year teaching English at the National University in Ulaanbaatar. It features his twisting journey through Mongolian drinking, heavy metal, wrestling and problematic plumbing as he...
Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran
- Location(s): Iran, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1970s onwards
At the age of ten, a young Iranian girl witnesses the horror of her father’s execution and escapes the revolution with her sister. Growing up in Tehran in the 1970s, Afschineh Latifi and her sister and two brothers enjoyed...