River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela…
Want to Read $ 9.99"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
If you liked the historical fiction plot in River Spirit by Leila Aboulela , here is a list of 13 books like this:
1. Kintu
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.11
Format: 442 pages, Paperback
Uganda’s history reimagined through the cursed bloodline of the Kintu clan in an award-winning debu… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- novels
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
"For knowing and refusing to know."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu
2. Salt Houses
By: Hala Alyan
3.40
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
On the eve of her daughter Alia's wedding, Salma reads the girl's future in a cup of coffee dregs. … read more
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3. The House of Doors
By: Tan Twan Eng
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redempti… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Money's the sixth sense. If you don't have it, you can't make … the most of the other five."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"I feel that when I travel I can change myself a little, and I return from a journey not quite the same self I was."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"That night, side by side, we drifted among the galaxies of sea-stars, while far, far above us the asterisks of light marked out the footnotes on the page of eternity."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
"All of us will be forgotten eventually. Like a wave on the ocean, leaving no trace that it had once existed.' He shook his head. 'We will be remembered through our stories."-Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors
4. A Spell of Good Things
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.79
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Ayobami Adebayo, the celebrated author of Stay With Me unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria a… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- african literature
- fiction
- novels
- audiobook
"Time was unforgiving, it didn’t stop, not even to give people a chance to scrape themselves off the floor if they’d been shattered."-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
"He stared back at her, unconcerned. She had always marvelled at his calm assurance that everything good in his life would either remain the same or get better. He took good fortune for granted. As th…"-Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things
5. Enter Ghost
By: Isabella Hammad
4.09
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A bold, evocative new novel from the Sue Kaufman, Betty Trask and Plimpton Prize Award winner Isabe… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
6. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
7. Straw Dogs of the Universe
By: Ye Chun
4.08
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
A harrowing and redemptive immigrant story for readers of Pachinko A Chinese railroad worker and… read more
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- historical
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. The Havoc of Choice
By: Wanjiru Koinange
4.31
Format: 376 pages, Paperback
2007, Kenya Long held captive by her father’s shadow of corruption, Kavata has spent her life su… read more
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- africa
- african literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
9. River Mumma
By: Zalika Reid-Benta
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Issa Rae’s Insecure with a magical realist spin: River Mumma is an exhilarating contemporary fantas… read more
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- novels
- fiction
- audiobook
10. Kantika
By: Elizabeth Graver
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A dazzling Sephardic multigenerational saga that moves from Istanbul to Barcelona, Havana, and New … read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Ken sos tu? I am Rebecca (Rivka, Rebekah) from my mother’s mother and the wife of Isaac in the Bible. The name means “to tie firmly"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
"Where are you going, where have you been? Do you have children? How was the voyage? What is the news of the world? What can I do for you? Please, sit. Eat. She’ll give them the name of Villa Erna, th…"-Elizabeth Graver, Kantika
11. Temple Folk
By: Aaliyah Bilal
3.74
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking debut collection portraying the lived experiences of Black Muslims grappling with … read more
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- audiobook
- literary fiction
- fiction
- historical fiction
12. Dust Child
By: Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
4.24
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of The Mountains Sing, a suspenseful and moving saga ab… read more
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- literary fiction
- historical
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"Persistence turns a bar of iron into a needle."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"With the fire of war burning, it needed more men as firewood."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"Everyone came from dust and would one day return to dust. Life is transitory, after all."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
"For him, poetry was the language of the soul. Writers could hide their feelings behind fiction, but had to bare their soul to poetry."-Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, Dust Child
13. 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
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
"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
14. A History of Burning
By: Janika Oza
4.14
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
An epic, sweeping historical debut novel spanning continents and a century, and how one act of surv… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
- audiobook
"What was love but one long act of forgiveness, of choosing to return, over and over again."-Janika Oza, A History of Burning
15. We Were Girls Once
By: Aiwanose Odafen
3.82
Format: None pages, Audiobook
'We were three: complete, as we were meant to be…’ Ego, Zina and Eriife were always destined to … read more
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- african literature
- fiction
16. River Spirit
By: Leila Aboulela
4.01
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The spellbinding new novel from New York Times Notable Author and Caine Prize winner Leila Aboulela… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- novels
- historical
- sudan
- war
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
- audiobook
"Keep your faith within your heart even if your tongue is forced to say otherwise."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"I wish I could say she looked like her old self. Suffice to say she looked well. None of us look like our old selves. War is not kind to a woman’s beauty."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"She was part of his youth and their love stretched from her village to his town. She must not feel lost or untethered. And there now was his son in her arms."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
"Free, heart tight, expectant, in love, she was not sure what her position would be in the household, not sure about much except that she did not want to be anywhere else."-Leila Aboulela, River Spirit
17. Ghost Season
By: Fatin Abbas
4.05
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mysterious burnt corpse appears one morning in Saraaya, a remote border town between northern and… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- historical
- sudan
- fiction
- historical fiction
- novels
- audiobook
18. Silk: A World History
By: Aarathi Prasad
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the compl… read more
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- historical
- audiobook
19. Ghostroots: Stories
By: 'Pemi Aguda
4.12
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A debut collection of stories set in a hauntingly reimagined Lagos where characters vie for freedom… read more
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- fiction
- african literature
20. Only Big Bumbum Matters Tomorrow
By: Damilare Kuku
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Humor and poignance mix in this powerful polyphonic novel about family secrets, judgmental aunties,… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
21. A Mouth Full of Salt
By: Reem Gaafar
4.37
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The Nile brought them life, but the Nile was not their friend.A small farming village in North Suda… read more
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- africa
- historical
- sudan
- fiction
- audiobook
"The river was like a bit of string, following her through time and place, anchoring her here – to a village that she hated with all her heart – but also moving her along."-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
"Fatima was dragging her feet. She hated houses of mourning. And the only thing worse than a house of mourning was a house that was waiting for a body to appear because without a body, the actual mour…"-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
"When Nyamakeem looked into Sulafa’s anguished face that afternoon, she saw herself. She felt her own heart breaking at the loss of the child, the son of the man who had killed her son. She looked at …"-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
"Mohamed Altahir was exhausted. He had lost count of how many hours he had been awake. He couldn’t remember the last time he had been up for this long, or when there had been this much chaos in such a…"-Reem Gaafar, A Mouth Full of Salt
