Different Cultures

Below is a list of the most popular titles focusing on different cultures and regions loaned out at Yarra Libraries in 2011.

Non-Fiction

Mao's last dancer by Cunxin Li
 Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter by Adeline Yen Mah?
Prisoner of Tehran : a memoir by Marina Nemat
Her father's daughter by Alice Pung
Even silence has an end: my six years of captivity in the Colombian jungle by Ingrid Betancourt
Before night falls by Reinaldo Arenas

Fiction

The space between us by Thrity Umrigar
In other rooms, other wonders : connected stories by Daniyal Mueenuddin
What is the what by Dave Eggers
The kite runner by Khaled Hosseini
Paradise of the blind by Thu Hung Dung
Of love and shadows by Isabel Allende
Shanghai girls by Lisa See
The liberated bride by A. B. Yehoshua
Links by Nuruddin Farah
Oil on Water by Helon Habila
Lyrics alley by Leila Aboulela
Secret son by Laila Lalami
A fine balance by Rohinton Mistry
Memoirs of a geisha by Arthur Golden
Kamchatka by Marcelo Figueras
An artist of the floating world by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Yacoubian building by Ala Aswany
 The autobiography of my mother by Jamaica Kincaid

Further information

Theary Sindel
Carlton Library and Reading Services Team Leader
9426 5603
Theary.Sindel@yarracity.vic.gov.au 


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