number9dream
David Mitchell
At age twenty, Eiji goes to Tokyo to search for the wealthy father he's never known. He stumbles upon the hidden power centers of the Japanese underworld and instead of finding his father, finds himself.
Read Time: ~4.1 hr
By the Sea
by Abdulrazak Gurnah (2001)
About this book
Saleh Omar used to be a furniture-shop owner, house owner, husband and father. Now he is an asylum seeker. When he meets Latif, a voluntary refugee, in a small English seaside town, there begins an unravelling of a story begun long ago.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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