Eleven Minutes
by Paulo Coelho (Brazil)
'Love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer…'
So says Maria, a young Brazilian girl convinced from an early age tha...


Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood (Canada)
“Oryx and Crake” is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before humankind...


How to Read the Air
by Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia)
One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopians who have spent all but their first year of marriage apart, set off on a road trip...


Gold Boy, Emerald Girl
by Yiyun Li (China)
The stories in this collection are mostly set in China. The country portrayed here is the China of the 21st century, where economic development has...


Shape-shifter
by Pauline Melville (Guyana)
From comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the fo...


Luka and the Fire of Life
by Salman Rushdie (India)
On a beautiful starry night in the city of Kahani in the land of Alifbay a terrible thing happened: twelve-year-old Luka's storyteller father, Rash...

