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The Strike

By Anand Mahadevan

The Strike casts the reader into 1980s India, where 12-year-old Hari must make sense of a world in which borders between languages, classes, and religions are still part of everyday reality. The narrative opens with ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Prisoner of Tehran

By Marina Nemat

In one of those odd, inexplicable coincidences so common in publishing, two new non-fiction books confront an unimaginable horror: young women abducted (or “arrested”) and held captive for months, if not years, with little hope ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Kidnapped: A Diary

By Leszli Kalli

In one of those odd, inexplicable coincidences so common in publishing, two new non-fiction books confront an unimaginable horror: young women abducted (or “arrested”) and held captive for months, if not years, with little hope ... Read More »

March 28, 2007 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography