TRAUMA FICTION

Alameddine, Rabih. Koolaids: The Art of War (Beirut war)

----------- I, the Divine: A Novel in First Chapters (A Lebanese woman in exile)
Atwood, Margaret. Cat’s Eye (traumatic past of a Canadian woman)
----------- Oryx and Crake (futuristic trauma)
Barker, Pat. Regeneration (the “deranged” mind of a post-WWI war hero)
Cao, Lan. Monkey Bridge (Vietnamese immigrant experience in America)
Christini, Tony. Homefront (American occupation of Iraq)
Choy, Wayson. The Jade Peony (Chinese immigration to Vancouver)
Coetzee, J.M. Dusklands (on colonisation; into the psyche of the imperialist)
D'Aguiar, Fred. Feeding the Ghosts (surviving in a slave ship)
Danticat, Edwidge. Breath, Eyes, Memory (violent past of Haitian women)
----------- The Farming of Bones (love and terror in the Dominican Republic)
----------- The Dew Breaker (point of view of a former torturer of Haitians under Duvalier's
regime)
De Lillo, Don. Point Omega (mind of former Iraqi war intellectual author)
Diaz, Junot. The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Dominican immigration)
Diski, Jenny. Then Again (legacy of the Holocaust to later generations)
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Virgin Suicides (American suburbian trauma)
Figes, Eva. Ghosts (fragments, amnesia, identity search)
----------- Little Eden. A Child at War (German-Jewish child WW II evacuated to London)
----------- Journey to Nowhere (Israel-Palestine controversy)
Foer, Jonathan Safran. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (9/11 fiction)
Hage, Rawi. Cockroach (An Arab immigrant in Montreal)
Hornschemeier, Paul. Mother, Come Home (graphic novel on a family tragedy)
Joaquin, Nick. Cave and Shadows (Martial law and colonial past of the Philippines)
Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke (Vietnam novel)
Jones, Gail. Sixty Lights
----------- Sorry (Australian girl’s life; murder story)
Kennedy, A.L. So I Am Glad (Scotland, healing from sexual abuse)
Kagawa, Joy. Obasan (Japanese-Canadian displacement during the war)
Magona, Sindiwe. Mother to Mother (South African apartheid told through killer's mother)
McCarthy, Cormac. The Road (post-apocalyptic world)
McCarthy, Tom. Remainder (memory loss and acting out)
McEwan, Ian. Atonement
----------- Saturday (terrorism, physical illness)
Mda Zake, Ways of Dying (told by a professional mourner in South Africa)
Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces (a Polish-Jew survivor smuggled into Greece)
Mpe, Phaswane. Welcome to Our Hillbrow (post-apartheid South Africa)
Murdoch, Iris. The Black Prince
Ng, Faye Myenne. Bone (Chinese American generations)
O’Brien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods (post-Vietnam war legacy)
Okubo, Miné. Citizen 13660 (post-Pearl Harbour life in a relocation camp for American-
Japanese)
Ozick, Cynthia. The Shawl (a Polish Jew survivor of the Nazi Holocaust)
Roberts, Michèle. Daughters of the House (aftermath of WWII for two French girls)
Spiegelman, Art. Maus I
----------- Maus II (Holocaust told through graphic novel)
----------- In the Shadow of No Towers (graphic depiction of 9/11)
Stern, Daniel. Who Shall Live, Who Shall Die (two men haunted by their Holocaust
experience)
Walker, Alice. The Color Purple (a Black woman’s working-through of past rape and
turbulent life)
Ward, Patricia Sarrafian. The Bullet Collection (coping from Middle East war)
Waters, Sarah. The Night Watch (WWII London)
W. G. Sebald, Austerlitz (novel with visuals, Europe post-war, on forgetting and surviving)
Wiesel, Elie. Night
Wong, Jade Snow. Fifth Chinese Daughter
Wilkomirski, Binjamin. Fragments (a Latvian boy’s perspective of death camps)