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Under the Radar MONTH YEAR
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The ardent swarm : a novel
by Yamen Manai
"Sidi lives a hermetic life as a bee whisperer, tending to his beloved 'girls' on the outskirts of the desolate North African village of Nawa. He wakes one morning to find that something has attacked one of his beehives, brutally killing every inhabitant. Heartbroken, he soon learns that a mysterious swarm of vicious hornets committed the mass murder-but where did they come from, and how can he stop them? If he is going to unravel this mystery and save his bees from annihilation, Sidi must venture out into the village and then brave the big city and beyond in search of answers. Along the way, he discovers a country and a people turned upside down by their new post-Arab Spring reality as Islamic fundamentalists seek to influence votes any way they can on the eve of the country's first democratic elections. To succeed in his quest, and find a glimmer of hope to protect all that he holds dear, Sidi will have to look further than he ever imagined. In this brilliantly accessible modern-day parable, Yamen Manai uses a masterful blend of humor and drama to reveal what happens in a country shaken by revolutionary change after the world stops watching."--Provided by publisher
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The arsonists' city
by Hala Alyan
The scattered members of a Middle-Eastern clan unite at an ancestral home in Beirut to change a new patriarch’s decision to sell the property, igniting revelations about their family’s past in Lebanon, Syria and the United States.
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The art of losing
by Alice Zeniter
The Algerian-French daughter of a man who claims he does not remember the past discovers her heritage when her grandmother’s return to their native home reveals their family’s secret past and the inescapable legacies of colonialism.
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Creatures of passage
by Morowa Yejide
"Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. Endless rides and alcohol help her manage her grief over the death of her twin brother, Osiris, who was murdered and dumped in the Anacostia River. Unknown to Nephthys when the novel opens in 1977, her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash, is finding himself drawn to the banks of that very same river. It is there that Dash--reeling from having witnessed an act ofmolestation at his school, but still questioning what and who he saw--has charmed conversations with a mysterious figure he calls the 'River Man.' When Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most. Morowa Yejidé's deeply captivating novel shows us an unseen Washington filled with otherworldly landscapes, flawed super-humans, and reluctant ghosts, and brings together a community intent onsaving one young boy in order to reclaim itself"
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Khalil : a novel
by Yasmina Khadra
Reevaluating his choices when the ISIS suicide bomb he attempted to detonate malfunctions, a young Moroccan in Belgium learns that the assignment had been part of a training test and that his terrorist cell has another mission for him.
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Lightseekers
by Femi Kayode
A Nigerian psychologist travels to a remote southern border town to uncover the truth about the murder of three university students.
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Lurkers
by Sandi Tan
The director of the Shirkers documentary presents the story of a wary Los Angeles community of immigrants, lovers and predators who find their daily realities upended by a suicide, a drama teacher with boundary issues and a lonely gay novelist.
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My heart : a novel
by Semezdin Mehmedinović
An intimate work of autobiographical fiction by the author of Sarajevo Blues traces the experiences of a writer who in the wake of a life-risking heart attack reevaluates his past as a member of a Bosnian war refugee family.
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Silence is a sense : a novel
by Layla AlAmmar
Rendered mute by trauma in war-torn Syria, an isolated young woman witnesses the small dramas of her neighbors in England while writing pseudonymous stories about her refugee experiences, before a local hate crime challenges her voicelessness.
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