Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

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  • NONFICTION

Clandestine in Chile

The nonfiction work by Colombian Nobelist Gabriel García Márquez recounts the dangerous undercover exploits of filmmaker Miguel Littín, who snuck back into his homeland—after being exiled by Augusto Pinochet—in order secretly to craft a documentary about the conditions there.

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June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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