Books like Shards by Ismet Prcic

The beloved classic of American literature, Little Women, narrates the adventures of four March sisters as they grow up during the Civil War era.

The Kite Runner follows an unlikely friendship between a privileged boy and the son of his father’s servant amid Afghanistan’s turbulent history, exploring betrayal, redemption, and the father‑son bond.

A sweeping tale of two Afghan women—Mariam and Laila—whose intertwined lives span decades of war, oppression, and cultural change, revealing the strength of friendship, family, and love.

Stephen Dedalus’s coming‑of‑age journey in Dublin frames his transformation from bullied youth to aspiring artist, as he distances himself from conventional life.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel follows Princeton student Amory Blaine as he navigates romance, ambition, and post‑world‑war disillusionment, offering a sharp portrait of the Jazz Age and the Lost Generation.

The Orphan Master's Son follows a man's journey through propaganda, identity, and state power in North Korea.

Experienced by a spirited Japanese‑American family and a native‑born child, this true account chronicles their struggle and survival during forced detention at Manzanar during World War II.

Jende Jonga’s dream of a new life in New York turns into a struggle as his family faces the rigors of immigration law and the hidden dangers of working for a powerful executive.

D. H. Lawrence’s 1933 novel follows the Morel family in a Nottinghamshire coal town, exploring love, ambition, and the Oedipal tension that shapes a working‑class mother‑son relationship.

Two newcomers—an older man and a boy—arrive in a new land, learn Spanish, and are assigned new names. They navigate a desert camp, a relocation center, and the city of Novilla while the man searches for the boy’s mother, all amid themes of immigration, family, and fate.

Fugitive Pieces traces the lives of three generations of men whose destinies are shaped by the Second World War, exploring how trauma, language, and memory intersect in the postwar era of Toronto.

Set against the vibrant backdrop of New York City, Angie Cruz’s *Dominicana* follows a young Dominican woman’s coming‑of‑age journey and the immigrant experience, highlighting family, romance, and self‑discovery.

A young Egyptian woman's life spanned Cairo’s political upheavals, from Mubarak’s regime to the revolution, tracing her coming of age, family secrets, and search for truth.

A continuation of Coetzee’s allegorical story, it follows young David and his caretakers as they rebuild their lives in a new town, exploring growing up, family bonds, and the power of memory.

Down There on a Visit follows four narrators named Christopher Isherwood as they navigate personal and sexual tensions across Berlin, the Greek Isles, London, and California in the 1920s‑1940s.

In the midst of the 1992 Bosnian war, a refugee mother recounts the horrors she endured, including repeated rapes by Serbian soldiers, and the birth of an unnamed child—a stark portrait of war’s brutality and human resilience.

"The gripping, untold story of The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and how the perpetrators of Balkan war crimes were captured by the most successful manhunt in history. Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague. Borger recounts how Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić--both now on trial in The Hague--were finally tracked down, and describes the intrigue behind the arrest of Slobodan Milošević, the Yugoslav president who became the first head of state to stand before an international tribunal for crimes perpetrated in a time of war. Based on interviews with former special forces soldiers, intelligence officials, and investigators from a dozen countries--most speaking about their involvement for the first time--this book reconstructs a fourteen-year manhunt carried out almost entirely in secret. Indicting the worst war criminals that Europe had known since the Nazi era, the ICTY ultimately accounted for all 161 suspects on its wanted list, a feat never before achieved in political and military history"--