Women's Stories with International Settings

Try these books if you're looking for:

• Women's literature
• Female characters
• International setting

A Thousand Splendid Suns
By Khalid Hosseini
F HOSSEINI
Two women of different backgrounds share a life under the same roof with the same abusive husband. “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is a story of personal tragedy set against the backdrop of national tragedy in Afghanistan.

Girls of Riyadh
By Rajaa Alsanea
F ALSANEA
A series of emails tells the struggles of four friends. These close girlfriends from upper-class Saudi families attend universities in Riyadh and in Chicago and San Francisco. Searching for love, they cannot escape deep-seated oppressive traditions after they return to Riyadh.

Saffron Kitchen
By Yasmin Crowther
F CROWTHER
The relationship between a mother and daughter grows turbulent when the mother, Maryam, returns to the tiny village in Iran where she grew up to come to terms with her past, especially with the ghost of her father and with her first love, Ali, who has been waiting for her return

Women of the Silk
By Gail Tsukiyama
F TSUKIYAMA
Spanning the years between the world wars, this tale of a young Chinese girl forced to work in a silk factory describes the sisterhood of workers she discovers there.

A Golden Age
By Tahmina Anam
F Anam
As she plans a party for her son and daughter, Rehana Haque's life will be transformed in a story of one family caught in the middle of the 1971 Bangladesh War of Independence, as they face changes and decisions that will have a profound impact on their lives.