Kalemat Group

The Big Blue Sea This simple story introduces children to marine animals in the Arabian Gulf. The repetition in the text entertains young children and helps them memorize the story and read it on their own, thereby enhancing their self-confidence and fostering their love...

Al-Kindi's Philosophical Letters Author's name: Dr. Mashhad Al-Allaf Al-Kindi is considered the pioneer of philosophy in Arab-Islamic civilization. Through him, philosophy gradually separated from theology, and with him, it began its true beginnings. Al-Kindi was a Muslim thinker by virtue of his religious and...

The Secret Lives of Baba Sagi's Wives Author's name: Lola Shounen Baba Sagi lives with his three illiterate wives in one house, surrounded by seven children, wealth, and riches. But now his eyes fall on Bolnle, a young girl who has just finished her...

Year of Small Museums Author's name: Asmaa Azayzah Asmaa also presents a mix of memoirs she wrote during that period, and an important documentary aspect of her rural father's life, one with few photographs or documentaries—unlike city dwellers. She also provides the reader with...

Clarice Lispector's Short Story Collections Author's Name: Clarice Lispector Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) was a Brazilian short story writer and novelist. She published several short story collections and novels, including *The Hour of the Star* and *Near the Savage Heart*. Lispector is considered one of...

The scream of the hook Author's name: Ahmed Umit On a warm day, a body is found in a children's park in Istanbul. The victim was left sitting under a slide, shot once in the back of the head, with a Barbie doll between...

The Secret Railroad Author Name: Colson Whitehead Cora, a slave working on a cotton plantation during the period before the American Civil War in the eighteenth century. Slaves lived a hellish life at that time, but Cora found her life even more difficult; she...

Covenants Author's name: Margaret Atwood Margaret Atwood wrote "The Vows," the second part of her most famous novel, "The Handmaid's Tale," for which she shared the Booker Prize in 2019. In it, she answers questions that have long puzzled readers of the first part...

Old road white clouds Author's name: Thiet Nhat Hanh "Ancient Road, White Clouds" presents the life and teachings of the sage Buddha as drawn from twenty-four original Sanskrit, Chinese, and Pali sources, making it comprehensive and unprecedented. The author walks through eighty years of...

Stone and Shadows Author's name: Burhan Sonmez Avdo believes that spirits speak to him, and that he can therefore craft a unique tombstone for each spirit, representing them. He is the teacher who lives in a hut next to the cemetery, and the rich...

The Handmaid's Tale Author's name: Margaret Atwood A frightening vision of society radically transformed by a radical religious and political revolution, "The Handmaid's Tale" has become one of the world's most widely read novels and one of the most relevant and timely of its...

Return of the soul Author's name: Ya Jasi It's 18th-century Ghana: two sisters born in different villages, never knowing each other. One marries a white slave trader and lives comfortably in the luxurious rooms of Cape Coast Castle. The other is captured during a...

American war Author's name: Omar Al-Akkad Journalist: You write in the book, "During war, you fight with guns, but during peace, you fight with stories." How did you come up with the idea for this dystopian novel? Omar Al-Akkad: I was listening to a...

Americana Author's Name: Chima Manda Ngozi Adichie “‘Fat’ is a bad word in America, simmering with moral judgment like ‘stupid’ or ‘ass,’ not a descriptor like ‘short’ or ‘tall.’ So she cut ‘fat’ from her vocabulary. But the word came back to her last...

The Book of Testimony Author's Name: John Banville He returns to his homeland to retrieve a rare painting he inherited from his father, but at the age of thirty-eight, he commits a horrific crime without justification or intent. He recounts the details of what...

sense of ending Author Name: Julian Barnes Teenager Tony Webster withdraws from a love affair with Veronica, only to find her immediately reunited with his best friends. They both wrote him a letter asking for understanding. He replied and lived forty years of his...

Emperor's Children Author's name: Claire Masoud "Oh, I see. The thing is, you, my nephew, had to stomp through my private papers in my drawer and let the whole damned world know your opinion of me. You know what you are? You're a little...

Comfort for strangers Author Name: Ian McEwan "Comfortable with Strangers" proves that literature and the social sciences, together, offer a new understanding of what is called "the literature of social density," offering analyses and treatments of the individual's preference for the rare over the...

in cold blood Author's Name: Truman Capote "In Cold Blood" made Truman Capote the most famous writer in America immediately after its publication in 1966. However, he was unable to complete another novel due to its overwhelming impact on him, and it completely destroyed...

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