Political Science 145.11

Spring 1997

Book Review List


Villasenor, Victor. Rain of Gold. New York: Dell Pub., 1992.
Villasenor, Victor. Wild Steps of Heaven. New York: Delacorte Press, 1996.
Shaykh, Hanan. Beirut Blues. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
Shaykh, Hanan. Women of Sand and Myrrh, trans. Catherine Cobham. New York: Anchor
Books, 1992.
Farman-Farmaian, Sattareh. Daughter of Persia: A Woman’s Journey from Her Father’s
Harem through the Islamic Revolution
. New York: Anchor Books, 1993.
Mahfuz, Najib. Arabian Nights and Days, trans. Denys Johnson-Davies. New York:
Doubleday, 1995.
Mahfuz, Najib. Children of the Alley, trans. Peter Theroux. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Mahfuz, Najib. Palace Walk, trans. William Maynard Huthchins and Olive E. Kenny. London:
Black Swan, 1994.
Lesley, Craig. River Song. New York: Dell, 1990.
Querry, Ronald B. The Death of Bernadette Lefthand. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.
Suzuki, David T. Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature. New York:
Bantam Books, 1993.
Tula, Maria Teresa. Hear My Testimony, trans. and ed. Lynne Stephen. Boston: South End
Press, 1994.
Yermiya, Dov. My War Diary: Lebanon, June 5 - July 1, 1982, trans. Hillel Schenker. Boston:
South End Press, 1984.
Turki, Fawaz. The Disinherited: Journal of a Palestinian Exile. New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1974.
Turki, Fawaz. Soul in Exile: Loves of a Palestinian Revolutionary. New York: Monthly
Review Press, 1988.
Guevara, Ernesto. The Bolivian Diary of Ernesto Che Guevara, ed. Mary-Alice Waters. New
York: Pathfinder Press, 1994.
Mandela, Nelson. Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Democratic, Nonracial South Africa,
ed. Steve Clark. New York: Pathfinder Press, 1993.
Sadawi, Nawal. The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, trans. and ed. Sherif
Hetata. Boston: Beacon Press, 1982.
Sadawi, Nawal. Women at Point Zero, trans. Sherif Hetata. London: Zed Books, 1983.
Ghanem, Ali. A Wife for My Son, trans. by G. Kazolias. London: Zed Books, 1984.
Nasrallah, Emily. Flight Against Time, trans. Issa J. Boullata. Charlottetown, P.E.I.: Ragweed
Press, 1987.
Salih, al-Tayyib. The Wedding of Zein, trans Denys Johnson-Davies. London: Heinemann,
1978.
Barakat, Halim Isber. Days of Dust, trans. Trevor Le Gassik. Wilmette, IL: Medina UP
International, 1974.
Ashrawi, Hanan. This Side of Peace. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Sahgai, Manmohini Zutshi. An Indian Freedom fighter Recalls Her Life, ed. Geraldine Forbes.
Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
Chin, Yin-lien C. Traditional Chinese Folktales. Armonk, NY: North Castle Books, 1996.
Man-Sik, Chae. Peace Under Heaven, trans. Chun Kyung Ja. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe,
1993.
Kenzaburo, Oe. The Pinch Runner Memorandum, trans. Michiko N. Wilson and Michael
K.Wilson. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1994.
Nasu, Masamoto. Children of the Paper Crane: The Story of Sadako Sasaki and Her Struggle
with the A-Bomb Disease
, trans. Elizabeth Baldwin. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1991.
Chang, Pang-Mei Natasha. Bound Feet and Western Dress. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee. Arranged Marriage: Stories. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
Shigekuni, Julie. A Bridge Between UsU. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
Wong, Jan. Red China Blue: My Long March from Mao to Now, New York: Anchor
Books, 1996.
Allende, Isabel. The House of the Spirits, trans. Magda Bogin. New York: Bantam Books,
1993.
Esquivel, Laura. Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipies,
Romance, and Home Remedies
. New York: Anchor Books, 1995.
Urrea, Luis Alberto. By the Lake of the Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican
Border
. New York: Anchor Books, 1996.
Niane, D.T. Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali, trans. G.D. Pickett. Harlow: Longman, 1994.
Houofa, Epeli. Tales of the Tikongs, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
Mistry, Robinton. Such a Long Journey. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Haddawy, Husain, trans. The Arabian Nights. New York: Norton, 1995.
Wang, Shawn. American Knees. New York: Scribner Paperback, 1996.
Cooke, Miriam and Angela Woollacott, eds. Gendering War Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
UP, 1993.
Kincaid, Jamaica. Lucy. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1991.
Emecheta, Buchi. The Bride Price. Oxford: Heinemann, 1995.
Hulme, Keri. The Bone People: A Novel. London: Picador, 1994.
Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata. Dogeaters. New York: Penguin Books, 1991.
Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine: A Novel. New York: HarperPerennial, 1993.



NOTE:
Other books not listed above may be reviewed with prior approval by
Dr. Nassar