19 must-read fiction books like Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga

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Kibogo

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Audio CD

In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancien…

If you liked the fiction plot in Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga , here is a list of 19 books like this:

1. The Dead Lake

By: Andrew Bromfield , Hamid Ismailov

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

A haunting Russian tale about the environmental legacy of the Cold War. Yerzhan grows up in a remot… read more

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2. Kairos

By: Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

Format: 379 pages, Hardcover

Die neunzehnjährige Katharina und Hans, ein verheirateter Mann Mitte fünfzig, begegnen sich Ende de… read more

Similar categories in Jenny Erpenbeck's Kairos book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"She would like a shallow life, swift and shallow, till some day she can start again. Get through her time fast until then. And when will that be? Then."

-Jenny Erpenbeck, Kairos

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3. Eastbound

By: Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

Format: 140 pages, Paperback

From Wellcome Prize winner Maylis de Kerangal comes a fast-paced story of two fugitives set on the … read more

Similar categories in Maylis de Kerangal's Eastbound book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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4. No es un río

By: Selva Almada

3.95

Format: 104 pages, Kindle Edition

Enero y el Negro llevan de pesca a Tilo, hijo adolescente de Eusebio, el amigo muerto. Mientras beb… read more

Similar categories in Selva Almada's No es un río book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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5. Tremor

By: Teju Cole

3.69

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violen… read more

Similar categories in Teju Cole's Tremor book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
"I had not noticed before how every stretch of this route contains personal memories, how the city is like one of those movies shot in a single take from the window of a moving car."

-Teju Cole, Tremor

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6. Mater 2-10

By: Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

Format: 486 pages, Paperback

International Booker–nominated virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story — an epi… read more

Similar categories in Hwang Sok-yong's Mater 2-10 book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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7. A Dictator Calls

By: Ismail Kadare

3.14

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Using a sophisticated and literary version of the ever-popular game of telephone to examine the rel… read more

Similar categories in Ismail Kadare's A Dictator Calls book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"And a cursory glance at Karl Marx shows that a man who had dedicated his life to the violent overthrow of the world order never devoted half a page in any of his dozens of books to the trauma and rem…"

-Ismail Kadare, A Dictator Calls

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8. My Friends

By: Hisham Matar

4.34

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return , a luminous novel of friendship, family, and … read more

Similar categories in Hisham Matar's My Friends book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"A vast distance exists between a protester and his slogan; the entire history of politics exists in that gap."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"For a writer, exile is prison, a severing from the source, and so, courageous or not, he dies in front of our eyes."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"She was older and all the more beautiful, had the weary tiredness of one who, in surrendering to her life, was ennobled by it."

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

"I walked off feeling an emptiness well up inside me. It seemed, for all the emptiness that it was, a presence. It made me want to run away, dive deeper into myself, into that cold desolation, to the …"

-Hisham Matar, My Friends

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9. Free Day

By: Inès Cagnati

3.83

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

In the marshy countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycl… read more

Similar categories in Inès Cagnati's Free Day book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • france
  • fiction
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10. Empty Wardrobes

By: Maria Judite de Carvalho

3.75

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced … read more

Similar categories in Maria Judite de Carvalho's Empty Wardrobes book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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11. Ti amo

By: Hanne Ørstavik

3.86

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

"Jeg elsker deg. Vi sier det til hverandre hele tiden. Vi sier det, i stedet for å si noe annet. Hv… read more

Similar categories in Hanne Ørstavik's Ti amo book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • short stories
  • fiction
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12. Happy Stories, Mostly

By: Norman Erikson Pasaribu

3.77

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

Playful, shape-shifting and emotionally charged, Happy Stories, Mostly is a collection of twelve st… read more

Similar categories in Norman Erikson Pasaribu's Happy Stories, Mostly book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
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13. Kibogo

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Audio CD

In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvelous recounting of the clash between ancien… read more

Similar categories in Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • rwanda
  • short stories
  • religion
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african literature
  • mythology
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14. Of Cattle and Men

By: Ana Paula Maia

3.97

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

Animals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated … read more

Similar categories in Ana Paula Maia's Of Cattle and Men book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
"Senhor Milo knows cattlemen, he's cut from the same cloth. No one goes unpunished. They're men of cattle and blood."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Two enclosures, one for cattle and one for men, standing side by side. Sometimes the smell is familiar. Only the voices on one side and the mooing on the other distinguish the men from the ruminants."

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"Edgar picks up the mallet. The steer comes up close to him. Edgar looks into the animal's eyes and caresses its forehead. The cow stomps one hoof, wags its tail and snorts. Edgar shushes the animal a…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

"For a few moments, Edgar Wilson yields to the late afternoon sun that has not yet fully set, but that is rushing headlong into a moonless, starless night. He knows how to listen in silence, even when…"

-Ana Paula Maia, Of Cattle and Men

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15. Standing Heavy

By: Gauz

3.58

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Initially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile. The securit… read more

Similar categories in Gauz's Standing Heavy book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • african literature
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16. Aniko

By: Anna Nerkagi

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Una tragedia si abbatte sulla vita di Seberuj, cacciatore e allevatore di renne dell'antico clan No… read more

Similar categories in Anna Nerkagi's Aniko book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

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17. Beyond the Door of No Return

By: David Diop

3.66

Format: 257 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling and deeply moving new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize. … read more

Similar categories in David Diop's Beyond the Door of No Return book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african literature
"Despite all my efforts to block it out, the ordeal on the pier in Gorée, after our brief escape beyond the door to the voyage of no return, came back to me intact. I realized then that painting and m…"

-David Diop, Beyond the Door of No Return

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18. Ædnan

By: Linnea Axelsson

4.23

Format: 762 pages, Hardcover

Ædnan är ett mäktigt epos som på en ordknapp vers berättar om två samiska familjer. I deras öden sp… read more

Similar categories in Linnea Axelsson's Ædnan book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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19. All Your Children, Scattered

By: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

4.15

Format: 192 pages, ebook

WINNER OF THE PRIX ETHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS D… read more

Similar categories in Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's All Your Children, Scattered book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • rwanda
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african literature
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20. The Singularity

By: Balsam Karam

3.81

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Lyrical and devastating, The Singularity is a breathtaking study of grief, migration, and motherhoo… read more

Similar categories in Balsam Karam's The Singularity book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
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21. Someone Like Us

By: Dinaw Mengestu

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After abandoning his once promising career as a journalist in search of a new life in Paris, Mamush… read more

Similar categories in Dinaw Mengestu's Someone Like Us book and Scholastique Mukasonga's Kibogo

  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • fiction
"Sometimes I look at you and think that things go right through you. You're like a donut. There's a hole in the middle, where something solid should be"

-Dinaw Mengestu, Someone Like Us

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Maylis de Kerangal

3.97

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Hwang Sok-yong

3.67

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A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare

3.14

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Jenny Erpenbeck

3.46

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Benjamín Labatut

4.34

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Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

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Michael Cunningham

3.57

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