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Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim

Par (auteur) Jacob Wren
Catégories: Littérature générale

What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears ...

South

Par (auteur) Babak Lakghomi
Catégories: Roman dystopique et utopique

South is a hallucinatory reimagination of life in a world under totalitarianism, and an individual’s quest for truth, agency, and understanding.

“A quiet meditation on imagination and reality, absence ...

A Hostage

When Charlotte is kidnapped by Middle Eastern dictator Kassem, panic is only held at bay by a sardonic Inner Voice, which alternately consoles and condemns. While Kassem appears determined to explain ...

In a Land without Dogs the Cats Learn to Bark

Par (auteur) Jonathan Garfinkel
Catégories: Littérature générale

In his wildly ambitious and darkly funny debut novel, Jonathan Garfinkel probes the fractured nature of identity, the necessity of lies, and the bloody legacy of the Soviet Empire.  

Spanning generations, ...

Texas

Par (auteur) Claudio Gaudio
Catégories: Littérature générale

A diplomat is captured by supposed insurgents and is waiting in a room for his execution. Texas is a provocative story of death against the backdrop of ugly and uncompromising politics. It is also a meditation ...

Escape from Syria

Par (auteur) Samya Kullab
Illustré par Jackie Roche
Catégories: Littérature générale

Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account that calls on real-life circumstances and true tales of refugee families to serve as a microcosm of the Syrian uprising and the war and refugee crisis that ...

Slouching Towards Innocence

Par (auteur) Ron Norman
Catégories: Littérature générale

Set in the quirky, combative, and darkly comic world of British Columbia politics—where your friends can be more dangerous than your enemies—Slouching Towards Innocence is a story of politics, love, ...

Under Her Skin

Par (auteur) Stephen Law
Catégories: Littérature générale

After her home is ransacked, her friend is attacked, and her white father suddenly reappears, Shaz is compelled to explore the racial divides in her life and in the city around her. In a narrative that ...

Through The Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

Par (auteur) Ava Farmehri
Catégories: Littérature générale
Séries: Essential Prose Series

At 20, Sheyda Porrouya’s life is almost over. Born in Iran on the day the mullahs declare the birth of the Islamic Republic, she witnesses the purging of all things Western and un-Islamic. Accused of ...

Rich and Poor

Par (auteur) Jacob Wren
Catégories: Littérature générale

Who hasn’t, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature ...