Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Cultural Heritage

In a ruined city after the partition of India and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, Ustad Ramzi is still famed as a wrestler of unparalleled strength and technique. But now Ramzi's power--if not his indomitable will--is on the wane, while his younger brother Tamami, unconcerned with traditions and hierarchy,...

A modern retelling of Balzac's classic Cousin Bette by one of America's most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York and in their domestic routine. Everything changes when Hortense, a wealthy young actress from Ohio, comes to the city to "make it." Textured with the grit and gloss of midcentury Manhattan, The Cosmopolitans is a...

Jasmine does not like middle school at all. With her father away in the army, Jasmine struggles to endure every boring day of eighth grade. Desperate to escape her unhappy reality, Jasmine etches her feelings into her desk in an effort to prove that she really is a mean kid. As the days drag on, it seems nothing is going to pull Jasmine out of her misery.

Although her teacher, Mrs. Truth, is excited to teach the students about African history and culture, Jasmine is less than enthused. But after Mrs. Truth introduces Jasmine to a ten-year-old African American historian, Garvey leads...

Jasmine does not like middle school at all. With her father away in the army, Jasmine struggles to endure every boring day of eighth grade. Desperate to escape her unhappy reality, Jasmine etches her feelings into her desk in an effort to prove that she really is a mean kid. As the days drag on, it seems nothing is going to pull Jasmine out of her misery.

Although her teacher, Mrs. Truth, is excited to teach the students about African history and culture, Jasmine is less than enthused. But after Mrs. Truth introduces Jasmine to a ten-year-old African American historian, Garvey leads...

Finalist, 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction
Carla Trujillo brings to life another side of the fabled city of Santa Fe in this rollicking novel set in Dogtown, a dilapidated neighborhood on the outskirts of town. Home to a hardscrabble community of working people struggling to make a living on meager means, Dogtown is worlds apart from the tourists, artists, and upscale eateries just a stone s throw away. The close-knit neighborhood thrives in its own way, until an entrepreneur arrives with a plan to cast out its occupants and construct a winery in its place.

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A native of Haiti, Dimitry Elias Leger makes his remarkable debut with this story of romance, politics, and religion that traces the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city.

Reflecting the chaos of disaster and its aftermath, God Loves Haiti switches between time periods and locations, yet always moves closer to solving the driving mystery at its center: Will the artist Natasha Robert reunite with her one true love, the injured Alain Destine, and live happily ever after? Warm...

Peter Johnson, a twenty-nine year old aspiring international correspondent and novelist, travels to Turkey in 2014 to research his Turkish, Armenian, and Syriac ancestors who were both perpetrators and victims of the 1915 massacres and deportations in that country. Using the vivid memoir of his great-grandmother as a guide, Peter teams up with his beautiful Muslim cousin, Ashti Kaya, to follow the route of his ancestors' deportation through Turkey and Syria to their final safety in America. Along the way, Peter and Ashti learn much about the history of their families and of the region and...