Fiction - Cultural Heritage

Based on the true story of a brave German nurse tasked with caring for Auschwitz's youngest prisoners, Auschwitz Lullaby brings to life the story of Helene Hannemann--a woman who sacrificed everything for family and fought furiously for the children she hoped to save. On...

New York Times BestsellerBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is an enchanting tale that captures the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening. An immediate international bestseller, it tells the story of two hapless city boys exiled to a remote mountain village...

"Recreates the experience of living in Thailand's aqueous climate so viscerally that you can feel the water rising around your ankles." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "Important, ambitious, and accomplished." --Mohsin Hamid, New York Times bestselling author of Exit West A missionary doctor pines for...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim's Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Béla Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian hometown. Having escaped from his many casino debts in Buenos Aires, where he was...

A tale of courage, love and resilience.Because They Loved Him follows Heather Windsong, a young Lakota mother as she fights to overcome unimaginable challenges, confront her past and build a future for her son. But with every step forward, the ties to her past...

Set amidst the turbulence of 1950s Cairo, Beer in the Snooker Club is the story of Ram Bey, an over-educated, under-ambitious young Egyptian struggling to find out where he fits in. Ram's favorite haunt is the fashionable Cairo Snooker Club, whose members strive to...

Stories of Sicily, immigration, and the lives of Sicilian women in the early 20th century.Author: Maria MessinaPublisher: Feminist PressPublished: 07/01/2007Pages: 210Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 7.00h x 5.00w x 0.48dISBN: 9781558613690About the AuthorMaria Messina (1887-1944) was born in Palermo, Sicily. She taught herself to read...

2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST - ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FINALISTWashington Post Notable Works of Fiction from 2024 - Booklist Top 10 Debut Novels of 2024 - Ms. Magazine Favorite Books of the Year 2024 - Elle.com The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024 - The...

2025 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST - ANISFIELD-WOLF BOOK AWARD FINALISTWashington Post Notable Works of Fiction from 2024 - Booklist Top 10 Debut Novels of 2024 - Ms. Magazine Favorite Books of the Year 2024 - Elle.com The Best Literary Fiction Books of 2024 - The...

A compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream--the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy New York Times Bestseller -...

Una apasionante historia de espías y, al mismo tiempo, un profundo examen del matrimonio basado en secretos y mentiras. En el colegio, Berta Isla decidió que se casaría con Tomás Nevinson, el apuesto chico de su clase, medio español medio inglés, con un extraordinario...

An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A...

A woman in 1980s Korea struggles to understand her identity and live an authentic life in the face of injustice.Author: Kim YideumPublisher: Deep Vellum PublishingPublished: 07/30/2019Pages: 250Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50dISBN: 9781941920770About the AuthorKim Yideum, an outspoken feminist hailed as...

Author: Ankur ThakkarPublisher: Triquarterly BooksPublished: 09/15/2026Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 8.04h x 5.21w x 0.72dISBN: 9798899480645Review Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 07/27/2026About the AuthorANKUR THAKKAR is a writer and multimedia artist whose stories have appeared in Guernica, [PANK], and TriQuarterly. He was a 2025 Sewanee Writers'...

The 20th anniversary edition of Edwidge Danticat's groundbreaking debut, now an established classic--revised and with a new introduction by the author, and including extensive bonus materials At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished Haitian village to New York to...

"A book you won't be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that's multi-continental, richly...

With this magnificently assured new novel, John McGahern reminds us why he has been called the Irish Chekhov, as he guides readers into a village in rural Ireland and deftly, compassionately traces its natural rhythms and the inner lives of its people. Here are...

One of England's most widely acclaimed young novelists adopts two eerily convincing narrative voices and juxtaposes their stories to devastating effect in this mesmerizing portrait of slavery. Cambridge is a devoutly Christian slave in the West Indies whose sense of justice is both profound...

From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna's literary career "Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take ... Haunting." --The New York Times Book Review Birdie and Cole are the daughters of...