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Choose from Stanfords' specially selected range of destination-led fiction from around the world, where the country or city the story is set in plays a major role or appears almost as a character, allowing you to get a vivid impression of what it is like whilst getting caught up in a riveting read. Visit Graham Greene's Vietnam, Haruki Murakami's Japan, Ian McEwan's England or Salman Rushdie's India and allow these novelists to bring a place to life for you.
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    Miss Garnet's Angel

    by Salley Vickers
    The best friend's death and the prospect of spinsterhood in Ealing galvanizes Miss Garnet into deciding, in a moment of romantic recklessness, to relocate herself to Venice.

    A lifetime habit of...
    • Publisher: HarperCollins

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    The Northern Clemency

    by Philip Hensher
    Shortlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize. Beginning in 1974 and ending with the fading of Thatcher's government in 1996, The Northern Clemency is Philip Hensher's epic portrait of an entire era, a...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    by Hunter S Thompson
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas tells the tale of journalist Hunter S Thompson and his ‘attorney’, the Samoan, driving to Las Vegas to find the dark side of the American dream.

    Roaring down the...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    Half of a Yellow Sun

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    Half of a Yellow Sun is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel; set in 1960s Nigeria, a time of vicious civil war when well over a million people died.

    Her three main characters are each drawn...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    The Yacoubian Building

    by Alaa Al Aswany
    Highly acclaimed upon its initial publication, Alaa Al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building is a mesmerising and controversial novel that is at once an impassioned celebration and a ruthless dissection of a...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    Saving Fish from Drowning

    by Amy Tan
    Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan is a novel about the seductions of Shangri-La, about being lost and being found, about losing your guide and carrying on regardless, and awaiting a saviour. All...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    Evening is the Whole Day

    by Preeta Samarasan
    Evening is the Whole Day by Preeta Samarasan is an exuberant, magical vision of post-colonial Malaysia and a vibrant portrait of a country coming of age, as well as a strong and urgent story about cast...
    • Publisher: Harper Perennial

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    The Balkan Trilogy

    by Olivia Manning
    As well as being an acute portrait of a marriage, The Balkan Trilogy is Olivia Manning’s epic, ironic comedy of manners and a haunting evocation of a vanished way of life. Living and working in...
    • Publisher: Arrow

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    Disgrace

    by JM Coetzee
    Disgrace by J M Coetzee takes as its complex central character 52-year-old English professor David Lurie, whose preoccupation with Romantic poetry - and romancing his students - threatens to turn him i...
    • Publisher: Vintage

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    Our Man in Havana

    by Graham Greene
    One of Graham Greene’s most popular books, Our Man in Havana has all the usual trademarks of a Greene novel (foreign locale, one man, a higher power and the perversion thereof), except instead of being...
    • Publisher: Vintage

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    The Old Man and the Sea

    by Ernest Hemingway
    Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Ernest Hemingway's magnificent fable The Old Man and the Sea is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. Here, is a perfectly crafted...
    • Publisher: Vintage

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    War and Peace

    by Leo Tolstoy
    Tolstoy's enthralling epic, War and Peace, depicts Russia's war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict. He creates some of the most vital and involving...
    • Publisher: Vintage
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