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Even if you think you know what it was like to grow up poor and black in the Jim Crow South, this novel will be a revelation to your understanding. Paulette Bourdreaux's first novel, and winner of the first Lee Smith Novel Prize, is a riveting, scary, and finally, uplifting account of a family's life in 1960s Mississippi. The novel was a finalist for the prestigious Crook's Corner Prize. Said Tayari Jones(An American Marriage): «This soaring story provs what teh old folks say: the truth really does set us free.»
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FALLING STAR author Chantel Acevedo is an acclaimed Latina author, whose much anticipated THE LIVING INFINITE is out from Europa in Fall 2018. FALLING STAR, winner of the Bakwin Prize, is the story of Cuban immigrants in the Mariel era. It was awarded a national bronze medal for Multicultural Fiction from the Independent Book Publisher Awards (IPPY), was a finalist for the International Latino Book Award, and the Balcones Fiction Prize.
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The spare, poetic prose of Raymond Carver meets Jenny Offiill's <i>Department of Speculation</i> and Elizabeth Strout's <i>My Name Is Lucy Barton</i>. In a period when many families in the heartland are shattered by drug addiction, this timely novel chronicles one woman's attempts to understand and survive her blended family, including her meth-addicted son. BEAUT, the winner of the 2018 Lee Smith Novel Prize, is the first novel of acclaimed poet Donald Morrill. It has garnered early, lavish praise from Wiley Cash (The Last Ballad) and Taylor Brown (The River of Kings). Morrill, former board member of AWP, will attract attention in the literary market and has already created a buzz with his reading at SIBA, which should result in some early bookseller reviews. Morrill's prose is gorgeous, but not at the expense of this novel's layered narrative and dead-on characterizations. Comps: <ul><li>Sweetgirl by Travis Mulhauser</li> <li>Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill</li> <li>All the News I Need by Joan Frank</li></ul>
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Kim Yideum has an international presence, having read at the Stockholm International Poetry Festival in 2014 and Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne in 2015. She was a writer-in-residence at the Free University of Berlin through Arts Council Korea, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She is considered one of the most exciting voices in contemporary Korean and feminist poetry, having received her PhD for a thesis on Korean Feminist Poetics. Ji Yoon Lee currently lives in Houston, Texas.
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Everything Good Will Come introduces an important new voice in contemporary fiction. With insight and a lyrical wisdom, Nigerian-born Sefi Atta has written a powerful and eloquent story set in her African homeland. It is 1971, a year after the Biafran War, and Nigeria is under military rule–though the politics of the state matter less than those of her home to Enitan Taiwo, an eleven-year-old girl tired of waiting for school to start. Will her mother, who has become deeply religious since the death of Enitan’s brother, allow her friendship with the new girl next door, the brash and beautiful Sheri Bakare? This novel charts the fate of these two African girls; one who is prepared to manipulate the traditional system and one who attempts to defy it.Written in the voice of Enitan, the novel traces this unusual friendship into their adult lives, against the backdrop of tragedy, family strife, and a war-torn Nigeria. In the end, Everything Good Will Come is Enitan’s story; one of a fiercely intelligent, strong young woman coming of age in a culture that still insists on feminine submission. Enitan bucks the familial and political systems until she is confronted with the one desire too precious to forfeit in the name of personal freedom: her desire for a child. Everything Good Will Come evokes the sights and smells of Africa while imparting a wise and universal story of love, friendship, prejudice, survival, politics, and the cost of divided loyalties.
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Experience a wonderfully complex world of characters and cultures as you explore modern Damascus with a spirited teenage boy.Amid the turmoil of modern Da­mascus, one teenage boy finds his political voice in a message of re­bellion that echoes throughout Syria and as far away as Western Europe. Inspired by his dearest friend, old Uncle Salim, he begins a journal to record his thoughts and impressions of family, friends, life at school, and his growing feelings for his girlfriend, Nadia. Soon the hidden diary be­comes more than just a way to re­member his daily adventures; on its pages he explores his frustration with the government injustices he witnesses. His courage and ingenuity finally find an outlet when he and his friends begin a subversive under­ground newspaper.Warmed by a fine sense of humor, this novel is at once a moving love story and a passionate testimony to the difficult and committed actions being taken by young people around the world. This book is not only suited for teenagers, it is also quite exciting to read for adults!
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The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from LebanonAlways Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine. The narrator, Abeer Ward (fragrant rose, in Arabic), daughter of a conservative family, admits wryly that her name is also the name of her father’s flower shop. Abeer’s bedroom window is filled by a view of a Coca-Cola sign featuring the image of her sexually adventurous friend, Jana. From the novel’s opening paragraph—“When my mother was pregnant with me, she had only one craving. That craving was for Coca Cola”—first-time novelist Alexandra Chreiteh asks us to see, with wonder, humor, and dismay, how inextricably confused naming and desire, identity and branding. The names—and the novel’s edgy, cynical humor—might be recognizable across languages, cultures, and geographies. But Chreiteh’s novel is first and foremost an exploration of a specific Lebanese milieu. Critics in Lebanon have responded in a storm, calling the novel “an electric shock” and finding that the problems of its characters reflect grave “social anomalies.” Read Chreiteh and see what the storm is all about.
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Перл – молодая жена и мать – теряет в авиакатастрофе мужа и остается жить с его семьей на острове. Население острова невелико: брат мужа, его странная жена, опустившийся профессор и дюжина детей. Детей ли?
Джой Уильямс – номинант Пулитцеровской премии, виртуозный мастер слова и гений-мыслитель, чей роман «Подменыш» вышел в 1978 году и сильно опередил своё время.
Как пишет переводчик книги Дмитрий Шепелев: «Это роман о любви и отчаянии, о женщинах и мужчинах, о взрослых и детях, о людях и зверях. Подобно жизни главной героини, он виртуозно избегает смысла, как птица – ловушки, он для этого слишком прекрасен, слишком чудовищен, слишком правдив. Эта история словно атональная симфония, шоковая терапия, стихийное бедствие – она вывернет вас наизнанку и заставит смеяться сквозь слезы. И главный жизненный урок, который вы получите: не спрашивай, за что мне это, спроси, зачем?»
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Miami in the 1920’s is a city with two faces. By day, it’s a dazzling beacon of industry; when the sun goes down, neon signs flash and decadence reigns. As Prohibition takes hold, speakeasies and illicit distilleries spring up alongside lavish mansions. Nothing can slow the influx of tourists thirsty for strong liquor—or quell the greed of those eager to provide it. Caught between these two worlds , and two very different men, beautiful Lily Strickland throws herself into re-building her grandparents’ Art Deco hotel while reveling in everything the city’s nightlife has to offer a blonde-bombshell flapper. When her shy, unassuming sister is caught up in Miami’s vicious mob underworld, Lily turns to the doctor she’s loved for years. But it may be up to a young pilot and former rumrunner to save her sister and salvage the legacy her family has worked so hard to build.