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The work of Abdulrazak Gurnah, the British author who was born in Zanzibar and won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, often deals with the lives of ordinary people struggling with the realities of colonialism, immigration and race.

Fida Jiriyis’s memoir is the product of her multilayered experiences — as an exile, in the diaspora, as a Palestinian citizen inside Israel, and in Occupied Palestine.

A debut novella focuses on the rigid gender roles Pakistani society dictates, told through the emotional story of a woman...