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Snow
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SNOW is the story of Ka, an exiled poet who returns from Germany to Kars, a small town in Turkey, purportedly to report on a rash of suicides by religious girls who are legally forbidden to wear head scarves. The head scarf debate is a hot political issue in Turkey even today, yet Ka's return to Turkey is driven less by an interest in politics and... »
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The Gift
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Hafiz, a secret Sufi, came to prominence in his day as a writer of love poems. That love transformed into an all-consuming passion for union with the divine. In The Gift, Daniel Ladinsky bestows on us the impassioned yet whimsical strains of Hafiz's ecstasy. Never forced or awkward, Ladinsky's Hafiz whispers in your ear and pounds in your chest,... »
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Essential Rumi
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No translator could do greater justice to the gorgeous simplicity of Rumi's poetry than Coleman Barks has done here. These exquisite renderings of the 13th-century Persian mystic's words into American free verse capture all the "inner searching, the delicacy, and simple groundedness" that characterize Rumi's poetry while remaining faithful to the image... »
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Istanbul: Memories and the City
Times gone by. Greater times, present days. A very personal take on the Great City by one of the world's great writers. Not always popular in his home cou... »
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The Yacoubian Building: A Novel
With characters from various backgrounds peppering the novel, this was a great "slice of life" of modern Egypt. It was fascinating to see the characters, ... »
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Girls of Riyadh: A Novel
I just finished a marathon of new novels from the "the Middle East" and finished up with this bonbon, a sweet dessert to follow the grim, rich, complex, h... »
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Palace Walk (Cairo Trilogy)
Perhaps in the original Arabic this book has life---I would hope so, as Mahfouz won the Nobel prize for literature--but the translation is stiff and lifel... »
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