Cultural Heritage category: 3433 books

Four strangers meet on a turbulent flight from Dubai to London: Amira, a canny Moroccan prostitute; Lamis, a 30-year old Iraqi divorcee; Nicholas, an English expert on Islamic art; and Samir, a Lebanese man who is delivering a monkey on a mission he doesn’t fully understand. Once safely on British...

In his latest novel, Mo Yan—arguably China’s most important contemporary literary voice—recreates the historical sweep and earthy exuberance of his much acclaimed novel Red Sorghum. In a country where patriarchal favoritism and the primacy of sons survived multiple revolutions and an ideological...

Randy Lee Eickhoff continues his translation of the Ulster Cycle, often referred to as the Red Branch Cycle, the large corpus of work that is primarily responsible for establishing the cultural identity of today's Ireland. In this collection of Ireland's famous myths, Eickhoff once again proves...

From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Told...

Linh Dinh is already one of the secret masters of short fiction. Love Like Hate is something like a traditional cross-cultural novel that's been shocked into life by Dinh's uncanny ability to tell us stories we didn't even know we wanted to hear. -- Ed Park, editor of The Believer In Love Like Hate,...

A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, who is one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal...

Algen is finally home after spending most of her teen years, and young adulthood in Washington State. She has never been clear on the reason she got sent to live with her father’s relatives. But she has a job she loves and can finally live in the place she loves. The Aurora Borealis fascinates her;...

“The Naturalist” is a dramatization of the first large battle in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. It is based on an anecdote about a British trooper catching butterflies while waiting for the battle to begin. “The Tramp” is set during the Anglo-Boer war of 1899. An isolated farm in the Orange Free...

Festival André Jute When the formidable Iron Curtain conductor Vlaklos decides to defect to the West at the Adelaide Festival of Arts, consequent events electrify an elite group related through their loves, their hatreds, their secrets and their ambitions. Lovers and enemies alike have their...

Tatsie was a rude thick-skinned bushman, despised by the rest of the tribe, for his arrogance and utter selfishness. His behavior was unacceptable in such a small desert dwelling community. The children hated him the most, for the way he bullied them. Find out what happened when an old women decided to kill and finally get rid of him...

BHM teaching: Whereas Laúwi/Levi - Houses of Priesthood, in days of former rain teaches the unified deeds that correspond to the Strength of ALOZAR and develops the OyinZayin Body which is relative to the works of Unity; in the last days the House of Laúwi triumphs from the seat in Perizzi (one...

“[A] diaspora of black culture and strong emotions, bordering the fine line between love and madness between two troubled people.” —Booklist   A prominent Jamaican reggae singer falls in love with an African-American woman while on tour in South Carolina. The two struggle to forge a relationship...

A Dream in Polar Fog is at once a cross-cultural journey, an ethnographic chronicle of the people of Chukotka, and a politically and emotionally charged adventure story. It is the story of John MacLennan, a Canadian sailor who is left behind by his ship, stranded on the northeastern tip of Siberia...

UNCROSSING THE STARS Not in fair Verona but Queens, New York, Romeo Zimowski and Juliana Singh have found true love. Not quite at first sight, but at a party. As with Shakespeare's famous characters, trouble awaits: quarrelsome families, cultural divides, and a death. But the more things stay...