The refugees

Viet Thanh Nguyen (1971-....). Auteur - Corsair - 2017

In The Refugees, Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopte...

Do not say we have nothing

Madeleine Thien (1974-....). Auteur - Granta Books - 2017

"In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the s...

Afterparties

Anthony Veasna So. Auteur - Atlantic Books - 2021

A debut story collection about Cambodian-American life. Seamlessly transitioning between t...

Oleander girl

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (1956-....). Auteur - Simon & Schuster Export - 2013

Tilo, an immigrant from India, runs a spice shop in Oakland, California. While she supplie...

White teeth

Zadie Smith (1975-....) - Penguin Books - 2001

Penguin fiction

'White Teeth' is a comic epic of multicultural Britain which tells the story of immigrants...

We need new names

NoViolet Bulawayo (1981-....). Auteur - Chatto & Windus - 2013

Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing...

Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi (1989-....) - Viking - 2020

**From the bestselling author of Homegoing comes a searing novel of love and loss, addicti...

The other americans

Laila Lalami (1968-....). Auteur - Bloomsbury UK - 2020

Late one spring night, Driss Guerraoui, a Moroccan immigrant in California, is walking acr...

The namesake

Jhumpa Lahiri (1968-....). Auteur - a Mariner book - 2003

Tells the story of a boy brought up as an Indian in suburban America, Gogol Ganguli, who s...

The idiot

Elif Batuman (1977-....). Auteur - impr. aux Etats-Unis

A portrait of the artist as a young woman. A novel about not just discovering but inventin...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Diaz (1968-....). Auteur - Faber - 2008

Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in N...

Severance

Ling Ma (1983-....). Auteur - Picador - 2019

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted ...

Sankofa

Chibundu Onuzo (1991-....). Auteur - Virago - 2021

"A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew--only to fi...

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee (1968-....). Auteur - Grand Central Publishing - 2017

Busan, Korea 1911: Sunja, the daughter of a boarding-house owner, falls pregnant by a marr...

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong (1988-....). Auteur - Vintage - 2020

On Earth We?re Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Writte...

Olga Dies Dreaming

Xochitl Gonzalez. Auteur - Fleet - 2022

It''s 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro ''Prieto'' Acevedo, are bold-faced names in th...

Love Marriage

Monica Ali (1967-....). Auteur - Virago - C 2022

Yasmin Ghorami has a lot to be grateful for: a loving family, a fledgling career in medici...

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu (1976-....). Auteur - Europa editions - 2020

Willis Wu doesn't perceive himself as a protagonist even in his own life: He's merely Gene...

Home fire

Kamila Shamsie (1973-....). Auteur - Bloomsbury Publishing - 2018

The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against ...

Good Intentions

Kasim Ali. Auteur - Fourth Estate - 2022

Nur and Yasmina are in love. They' ve been together for four happy years but Nur's parents...