Every month, starting with Fugitive Pieces in September 2020, we will add a book page. Each book page has a literary introduction to the book written by an international scholar, some information about the history the book reckons with, and some information about the human rights issues brought up. Just click on the titles to see more.
You can use the links below to navigate around the page. We will provide secondary pages with information on the books later on in the project as we approch their month/event. As of now, books for September 2020 – August 2021 all have their own sections.
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Books for September – October 2020
Fugitive Pieces (1996)
by Anne Michaels
with Michael Richardson
The Underground Railroad (2016) by Colson Whitehead with James Dawes
Book for November 2020
Home (2012)
by Toni Morrison
with Maxine Montgomery
All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
by Anthony Doerr
with Irving Goh
The Hungry Tide (2005)
by Amitav Ghosh
with Alexa Weik von Mossner
Purple Hibiscus (2003)
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
with Aghogho Akpome
Cassandra (1983)
by Christa Wolf
with Mieke Bal
Kindness of Enemies (2015)
by Leila Aboulela
with Yasmine Motawy
Parable of the Sower (1993)
by Octavia Butler
with Stef Craps
The Surrendered (2008)
by Chang-rae Lee
with James Dawes
Burnt Shadows (2009)
by Kamila Shamsie
with Greg Forter
Book for July 2021
- Death is hard work (2016)
by Khaled Khalifa
with Brigitte Herremans
Go, Went, Gone (2015)
by Jenny Erpenbeck
with Hanna Meretoja