"Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer was one of the most widely and highly praised novels of 2015, the winner not only of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but also the Center for Fiction Debut Novel Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, the ALA Carnegie Medal for Fiction, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature, and the California Book Award for First Fiction. Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly...

In a society rife with conflict and a world on the edge of extinction, whom should we turn to for answers: society's strongest or weakest? This is the question Takuji Ichikawa, one of Japan's most imaginative and unusual authors, poses in The Refugees' Daughter, a magical modern parable for our troubled times. Through this terrifying and dreamlike dystopia, a young girl is amongst those fleeing their homes and seeking safety. From Ichikawa, a Japanese...

His sabbatical in Europe cut abruptly short by the opening hostilities of the First World War, Charlie Durand, a professor of romance languages, finds himself caught up with a wave of Belgian refugees fleeing to London. Rescued, as it were, by Audrey Rushworth, a flustered yet determined noblewoman, Charlie is hustled off to the English countryside. Only, Charlie isn't really a refugee . . . Playful and insightful, Edith Wharton's "The Refugees" reflects...

After twenty years surviving refugee camps in Nepal, the Kingdom of Bhutan's forgotten exiles abandon hopes of returning to their lost land and seek a new life in a place called America.

Major Robinson never dreamed that the fate of the entire Commonwealth of Sanctuary colony would one day rest on his shoulders.Yet, that is where he finds himself twenty-two years after Earth colonists crash-landed on the planet. He is surprised when he is assigned to safely escort some Chinese refugees to neutral territory in an effort to avoid war with Emperor Zhao.Major Robinson is determined to prove himself in the field and redeem his past mistakes....