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Do you feel overwhelmed by constant notifications, endless emails, and digital chaos?Digital Declutter is your step-by-step guide to regaining control of your time, focus, and peace of mind.Inside this book, you will discover:✅ Practical strategies to organize your files, apps, and online accounts✅ How to reduce screen time without losing productivity✅ Simple systems to manage emails, social media, and digital distractions

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEAn award-winning, thrillingly provocative international bestseller - adapted to a major motion picture starring Riz Ahmed and Kiefer Sutherland - from the author of Exit West'Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America . . . 'So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles. Invit...

A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick - Booker Gems***THE***NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017WINNER OF THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE'Astonishing' Zadie Smith'Stunning' Spectator'Extraordinary' TLSAn extraordinary story of lo...

From the twice Booker-shortlisted author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Exit West, a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling changeOne morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover.Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an ...

**“A clear-eyed assessment of the current global situation. Highly recommended.” —Francis Fukuyama, author of Liberalism and Its DiscontentsA provocative case for why a better world is only possible with American power by Washington Post columnist and author of Islamic Exceptionalism Shadi Hamid.**From acclaimed author Shadi Hamid comes an urgent and deeply personal argument for why American dominance, despite its many flaws, remains the world’s b...

Moth Smoke is the first novel by Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant Fundamentalist'You know you're in trouble when you can't meet a woman's eye, particularly if the woman happens to be your best friend's wife.'In Lahore, Daru Shezad is a junior banker with a hashish habit. When his old friend Ozi moves back to Pakistan, Daru wants to be happy for him. Ozi has everything: a beautiful wife and child, an expensive foreign education - and a ...

Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town's alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colourful lives offer a unique and comic picture of a little-known land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bo...

LOVIN’ SAFARISYNOPSISThere’s nothing like a woman who’s attractive, educated, and armed with many talents…talent’s that could knock a grown man to his knees.Safari Kennedy is an only child, born to parents who both faced untimely deaths. Unlike her mother, who dies in an automobile accident, Safari witnesses the murder of her father. For some unbeknownst reason, the killer lets her get away. As the years pass she never tells a soul and spends time p...

Told through the eyes of Farida, as well as her inquisitive sister and brothers, this is a beautiful story about growing up in Sudan. Sudanese culture and customs are brought to life, from the ubiquitous tea service and hearty breakfasts to the commemoration of Muslim holidays and the rites of birth and death. But a happy childhood spent in the capital and the rural villages of 1960s Sudan ends startlingly with a sudden military coup that changes the make-up of Farida's family forever.

Winner of the EBRD Literature Prize 2019 On New Years' Eve 1938, the writer Abdulla Qodiriy is taken from his home by the Soviet secret police and thrown into a Tashkent prison. There, to distract himself from the physical and psychological torment of beatings and mindless interrogations, he attempts to mentally reconstruct the novel he was writing at the time of his arrest – based on the tragic life of the Uzbek poet-queen Oyhon, married to three khans in succession, and living as Abdulla...

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia is Mohsin Hamid's spectacular, thought-provoking novel of modern AsiaIn this keenly-awaited follow-up to his bestselling The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid confirms his place as a radically inventive story-teller with his finger on the world's pulse.The astonishing and riveting tale of a man's journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it steals its shape from the business self-he...

Iranian artists have been producing some of the world's most thought-provoking and intellectually grounded artworks.In this landmark compendium, renowned art historian Hamid Keshmirshekan provides a thorough review of contemporary art in Iran and shows that the twentieth century was a crucial period in the country's art and culture, when the legacies of tradition and modernism where critically reassessed.Contemporary Iranian Art is an unprecedented introduction to ...