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A Violent Life
The Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai
Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
I’m Traveling Alone: A Novel
A Room with a View
In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
White Spirit
CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
Love and Ruin
Tirra Lirra by the River: A Novel
Tunisian Dreams
Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem

Books set in Vietnam

The Girl in the Picture
The Turk Who Loved Apples: And Other Tales of Losing My Way Around the World
Vietnam: Rising Dragon
A Rumor of War
The Bangkok Asset: A Royal Thai Detective Novel
The Lover
The Refugees
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
The Things They Carried
The 13th Valley
The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam
Postcards from Nam
The Quiet American
The Honourable Schoolboy
Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam
The Eaves of Heaven: A Life in Three Wars
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
Saigon: An Epic Novel of Vietnam
The Sympathizer
Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family

Books set in Prague

Walpurgisnacht
A Time of Gifts
The Golem
HHhH
Alice’s Piano: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Prague Orgy
A Perfect Spy
Necessary Errors
The Widow Killer
Innocence (or, Murder on Steep Street)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Life with a Star
Background to Danger
Heraclix and Pomp: A Novel of the Fabricated and the Fey
The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War
Utz
The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague
I Served the King of England
Despair

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