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A Nearby Country Called Love: A Novel By Salar Abdoh Cover Image
World Literature with Anderson Tepper: Finding Humanity Amid Chaos with Salar Abdoh
Tuesday, November 28, 2023 - 7:00pm

Our International Reading Series continues, this time featuring a reading and conversation with Salar Abdoh, author of A Nearby Country Called Love. It is a sweeping, propulsive novel about the families we are born into and the families we make for ourselves, in which a man struggles to find his place in an Iran on the brink of combusting. 

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Wandering Stars: A novel By Tommy Orange Cover Image
The Intuitionist: Introduction by Colin Grant (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) By Colson Whitehead, Colin Grant (Introduction by) Cover Image
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The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: Stories By Louise Kennedy Cover Image
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The Fetishist By Katherine Min Cover Image
The Woman Back from Moscow: In Pursuit of Beauty: A Novel By Ha Jin Cover Image
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Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future By Brandi Collins-Dexter Cover Image

Staff Picks: New in Translation

The Apple in the Dark By Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (Translated by) Cover Image
So Many People, Mariana By Maria Judite de Carvalho, Margaret Jull Costa (Translator) Cover Image
The Iliad By Homer, Emily Wilson (Translated by) Cover Image
Have You Been Long Enough At Table By Leslie Sainz Cover Image
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Emerald Wounds: Selected Poems By Joyce Mansour, Emilie Moorhouse (Editor), Emilie Moorhouse (Translator) Cover Image
How to Love Your Daughter: A Novel By Hila Blum, Daniella Zamir (Translated by) Cover Image

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Winter Solstice: An Essay By Nina Maclaughlin Cover Image
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris By Mark Braude Cover Image
Un Amor: A Novel By Sara Mesa, Katie Whittemore (Translator) Cover Image
Pedro Páramo By Juan Rulfo, Douglas J. Weatherford (Translator), Gabriel García Márquez (Introduction by) Cover Image
The Apple in the Dark By Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser (Translated by) Cover Image
Bathhouse and Other Tanka By Ishii Tatsuhiko, Hiroaki Sato (Translated by) Cover Image
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Staff Picks: Children's Books

To See Clearly: A Portrait of David Hockney By Evan Turk Cover Image
Rosie Runs By Marika Maijala, Marika Maijala (Illustrator), Mia Spangenberg (Translated by) Cover Image
I Am Kavi By Thushanthi Ponweera Cover Image
The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale By Jon Klassen, Jon Klassen (Illustrator) Cover Image
The Collectors: Stories By A.S. King (Editor), M. T. Anderson, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo, A.S. King, David Levithan, Cory McCarthy, Anna-Marie McLemore, G. Neri, Jason Reynolds, Randy Ribay, Jenny Torres Sanchez Cover Image
An Impossible Thing to Say By Arya Shahi Cover Image

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City of Asylum Exiled Writers-in-Residence

The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories By Osama Alomar, C. J. Collins (Translated by) Cover Image
The Conspiracy By Israel Centeno, Guillermo Parra (Translator) Cover Image
Night Birds and Other Stories By Maung Maung Myint (Translator), Khet Mar Cover Image
Senselessness By Horacio Castellanos Moya, Katherine Silver (Translated by) Cover Image
The Thunder of Deep Thought: House of the Sun Notebooks, Number Two By Teresa Zimmerman-Liu (Translator), Huang Xiang Cover Image
Rituals of Restlessness By Yaghoub Yadali, Sara Khalili (Translator) Cover Image

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