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The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s memoir entwines his family’s experience of war and exile with racism, refugeehood and colonisation
An astute portrayal of the dislocation of first-generation immigrants
Set in her native land, Liliana Corobca’s novel uses a child’s perspective to paint a vivid picture of cruelty and poverty
The Rwandan writer playfully explores storytelling and colonialism
A poetic collection of tales about grief, renewal and our complex relationship with the past
The depiction of tyranny and the traumatic fallout for its opponents in this Booker-longlisted novel is utterly believable
With several cliffhanger chapters, Louise Doughty’s latest novel is a consummate psychological thriller about a female spy navigating the corridors of power
A picaresque tale of an Anglo-Iraqi outcast asks who gets to belong in Britain
Maryse Condé’s novel uses a messianic figure to explore her favourite themes through a sometimes too truncated anecdotal style
In her moving second novel, Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai writes of about the persecution faced by Vietnamese children fathered by US soldiers
Dorothy Tse’s debut novel draws on protests in Hong Kong to plunge its protagonist into Kafkaesque situations
The Bosnian-American author returns to themes of displacement in an epic novel that spans decades
An architect confronts her own trauma in this story set in pre-Olympics Brazil
A tale full of magic realism, melancholy and disconnectedness charts a piano teacher’s unfulfilled ambitions
Derek Owusu uses a potent mix of poetry and prose to convey the disorienting experience of being an immigrant
Shehan Karunatilaka’s epic novel is a powerful evocation of Sri Lanka’s dark and brutal past
The lives of three 19th-century dissidents are explored through a thrilling mix of history, travelogue and biography
Set in Northern Ireland, the writer’s assured second novel explores the legacy of past trauma within a Catholic farming family
France’s colonial legacies and racial prejudices are explored in this entertaining and informative satire
Dual narrative looks at the racism and terrifying experiences into which the ‘outsider’ is thrown, both past and future
A quartet of essays revisits the themes of the author’s Naples-based novels, and pays tribute to female strengths
Simple, direct prose offers vivid snapshots of a country beset by war and violence
The invisible poor of Angola are brought to vivid life in a work of scathing political satire and surreal twists
The second part of a three-part historical fiction of the 20th century is impeccably researched but unevenly delivered
This compassionate exploration of migrants’ reasons for risking life and limb to reach Europe comes at a time of hardening policies towards refugees
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