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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Buddhaland Brooklyn	Richard C. Morais	"From the writer whose debut sleeper, The Hundred-Foot Journey, charmed readers in the United States and around the world (18 countries and counting) comes another modern day fairytale also about a m…	OL16564550W
We Need New Names	NoViolet Bulawayo	Whenever foreigners visit Paradise they always ask Darling and her friends to smile for the camera. Here are some of the things Darling and her friends have to smile about: stealing guavas, gifts fro…	OL16814507W
When the Moon Is Low	Nadia Hashimi	Mahmoud's passion for his wife Fereiba, a schoolteacher, is greater than any love she's ever known. But their happy, middle-class world—a life of education, work, and comfort—implodes when their coun…	OL17621475W
Exit West	Mohsin Hamid	"In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet-- sensual, fiercely independent Nadia and gentle, restrained Saeed. They embark on a furtive love affair, and are soon cloist…	OL17635446W
China Dolls	Lisa See	"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story …	OL17722181W
Island of a thousand mirrors	Nayomi Munaweera	"Before violence tore apart the tapestry of Sri Lanka and turned its pristine beaches red, there were two families. Yasodhara tells the story of her own Sinhala family, rich in love, with everything …	OL17883318W
I am China	Xiaolu Guo	"In her flat in north London, Iona Kirkpatrick sets to work on a new project translating a collection of letters and diaries by a Chinese musician. With each letter and journal entry, Iona becomes mo…	OL17888400W
The ghost bride	Yangsze Choo	1893, Malaysia. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But fate intervenes when she receives an unusual proposal from the wealthy and powerful Lim family. They want…	OL18181855W
The incendiaries	R. O. Kwon	A young Korean-American woman at an elite American university is drawn into acts of domestic terrorism by a cult tied to North Korea and then disappears, leading a fellow student into an obsessive se…	OL19667792W
The valley of amazement	Amy Tan	Violet Minturn, a half-Chinese/half-American courtesan who deals in seduction and illusion in Shanghai, struggles to find her place in the world, while her mother, Lucia, tries to make sense of the c…	OL19704802W
What It Means When A Man Falls From The Sky: The most acclaimed short story collection of the year	Lesley Nneka Arimah	"A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home. In "Who Will Gre…	OL19817651W
Panic in a suitcase	Yelena Akhtiorskaya	"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant…	OL19982952W
The hundred-foot journey	Richard C. Morais	Born above his grandfather's modest restaurant in Mumbai, Hassan first experienced life through intoxicating whiffs of spicy fish curry, trips to the local markets, and gourmet outings with his mothe…	OL20000998W
Blackass	A. Igoni Barrett	"Furo Wariboko wakes on the morning of a job interview to discover he's turned into a white man: red hair, green eyes, pale skin. In this condition he plunges into the bustle of Lagos to make his for…	OL20026720W
The fortunes	Peter Ho Davies	The Fortunes reimagines the traditional multigenerational novel through the lens of immigrant experience. The family institution is revered in Chinese culture, but the historical reality of Chinese A…	OL20035170W
The leavers	Lisa Ko	"One morning, Deming Guo's mother, an undocumented Chinese immigrant named Polly, goes to her job at the nail salon and never comes home. With his mother gone, eleven-year-old Deming is left with no …	OL20054911W
Burning	Megha Majumdar	Set in Kolkata, India, the novel tells the story of its central character Jivan, a woman who witnesses a terrorist attack on an Indian train while it is stopped in a station.The woman posts to Facebo…	OL20758709W
Rainbow Milk	Paul Mendez	Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award. An essential and revelatory coming-of-age narrative from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples…	OL21709777W
Zurück nach Oraibi	Hanna Johansen	Alltag in einem Dorf der Hopi-Indianer um die Jahrhundertwende: Das Leben der Menschen ist beherrscht von Traditionen. Sie wollen im Einklang mit der Natur leben, doch ihre Bräuche werden brüchig. Di…	OL755039W
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao	Junot Díaz	Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and he kee…	OL7990014W