Library Displays at UCBA

This is a deeply moving and eye-opening work of fiction that paints a powerful portrait of life under the North Korean regime.

An indelible character at once precocious and imperiled, Leyla gives voice to the working-class and immigrant struggle to find safety, self-expression, and happiness. The Applicant explores with wit and brevity what it means to be an immigrant, woman, and emerging writer.

When brothers Tushar and Nakul Khurana, two Delhi schoolboys, pick up their family's television set at a repair shop with their friend Mansoor Ahmed one day in 1996, disaster strikes without warning. This is an expansive and deeply humane novel.

The Bee Sting, Paul Murray's exuberantly entertaining new novel, is a tour de force: a portrait of post-crash Ireland, a tragicomic family saga, and a dazzling story about the struggle to be good at the end of the world.

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand's South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. A gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive.

Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is unearthed, this is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes.

Set during the early years of Sri Lanka's three-decade civil war, Brotherless Night is a heartrending portrait of one woman's moral journey and a testament to both the enduring impact of war and the bonds of home.

Two immigrants' conflicting stories about their common homeland reveal the buried truths that drove them from it. When the two encounter each other in an English seaside town, the narratives each carries of their mutual past begin to unravel.

Spanning several decades, Ghassan Zeineddine's debut collection examines the diverse range and complexities of the Arab American community in Dearborn, Michigan.

Disquiet transports the reader to the contemporary Middle East through the stories of Meleknaz, a Yazidi Syrian refugee, and Hussein, a young man from the Turkish city of Mardin near the Syrian border.

Spanning from Chicago to Mexico to New Mexico, these stories illuminate a chorus of people whose stories will leave you breathless.

A richly poetic and suspenseful saga about two Vietnamese sisters, an American veteran, and an Amerasian man whose lives intersect in surprising ways, set during and after the war in Vietnam.

A stunning rendering of present-day Palestine, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora, displacement, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance.

Manchuria, 1908. In the last years of the dying Qing Empire, a courtesan is found frozen in a doorway. Author Yangsze Choo brilliantly explores a world of mortals and spirits, humans and beasts, and their dazzling intersection.

Harlem Shuffle's ingenious story plays out in a beautifully recreated New York City of the early 1960s. It's a family saga masquerading as a crime novel, a hilarious morality play, a social novel about race and power, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem.

This traces the generations of family who follow, as their destinies lead them through two continents and three hundred years of history, each life indelibly drawn, as the legacy of slavery is fully revealed in light of the present day.

A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made.

Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, this is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family.

Moving between Nigeria and America, Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions is a window into the world of accomplished Nigerian women, illuminating the challenges they face and the risks they take to control their destinies.

Dealing with the travails and traumas of history, with gendered identity, with the tension between private and public selves, this is a distinctive and intriguing novel by one of Japan's most unique contemporary authors.

A vivid portrait of twentieth-century Parisian intellectual and artistic life, an enthralling investigation into family secrets, and poignant tale of a Jewish family devastated by the Holocaust and partly restored through the power of storytelling.

Potent stories that offer a forceful vision of contemporary Navajo life. Set in and around Flagstaff, the stories in Sinking Bell depict violent collisions of love, cultures, and racism.

The collection captures the changing face of contemporary African societies as they reveal the fears and dreams, the confusion and clarity of the cultures they reflect.

An incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.