This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable …
Want to Read $ 9.99"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discouragement up in the glamour of intellect."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. The one does not acknowledge the other's existence. The women from war are like that [...]"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
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1. A Grain of Wheat
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Gr… read more
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- africa
- african literature
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- historical fiction
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2. Ghana Must Go
By: Taiye Selasi
0.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his … read more
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3. We Need New Names
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
4.50
Format: 228 pages, Hardcover
An exciting literary debut: the unflinching and powerful story of a young girl's journey out of Zim… read more
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4. Our Lady of the Nile
By: Scholastique Mukasonga , None
3.71
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 wi… read more
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5. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- literary fiction
- zimbabwe
- fiction
- historical fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
6. 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
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"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
7. Wild Houses
By: Colin Barrett
3.78
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and sma… read more
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- literary fiction
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"What you are in, Dev, is a holding pattern, only you're not holding out for anything."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"All boys, all children, are capable of cruelty at the right juncture of opportunity and circumstance, but only a few become committed prodigies of sadism..."-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"In the dream, exactly as he had in real life, he sensed the slow, inexorable approach of the shapeless, prospectless days to come, days when there would be no need to get out of bed or brush his teet…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
"He looked around the empty kitchen. A part of him wanted this of course. A part of him had always wanted this, to be alone, away from even the prospect of any demand upon him to talk, to interact, to…"-Colin Barrett, Wild Houses
8. The Long Take
By: Robin Robertson
3.83
Format: 237 pages, Hardcover
Walker, a young Canadian recently demobilised after war and his active service in the Normandy land… read more
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9. The Shadow King
By: Maaza Mengiste
3.67
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Ethiopia. 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to … read more
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"The routine dulls the terror."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"He holds no importance except what memory allows."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"What is lost is gone, my child, what is lost makes room for something else."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
"what is forged into memory tucks itself into bone and muscle. It will always be there and it will follow us to the grave."-Maaza Mengiste, The Shadow King
10. The New Wilderness
By: Diane Cook
3.68
Format: 398 pages, Hardcover
A debut novel that explores a mother-daughter relationship in a world ravaged by climate change and… read more
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- literary fiction
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"It was soft, tickling. The liquid was cold going on, like dipping her pinky into a winter river's icy slurry. A thrill shot through her neck. Then, everything on her finger closed up., tightened, sto…"-Diane Cook, The New Wilderness
11. A Passage North
By: Anuk Arudpragasam
3.71
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A young man journeys into Sri Lanka's war-torn north in this searing novel of longing, loss, and th… read more
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"Between the forgetting that takes place as a result of our consent, which is a forgetting we need in order to reconcile our pasts and presents, and the forgetting that is imposed on us against our ow…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was something about twilight that heightened his anxiety, which brought it to the surface of his consciousness and made it palpable, as though with the gradual disappearance of the horizon the …"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"It was the fact, above all, that sudden or violent deaths could occur not merely in a war zone or during race riots but during the slow, unremarkable course of everyday life that made them so disturb…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
"There was a difference between the pleasure that soothed and lulled one to sleep and pleasure that drew the self more widely and vividly into the world, and thinking of his return to Colombo now it s…"-Anuk Arudpragasam, A Passage North
12. Burnt Sugar
By: Avni Doshi
3.26
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Uma história de obsessões e traição. Uma história de amor envenenada, cujos protagonistas, ao contr… read more
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- fiction
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"Ma naps on the sofa, and for a moment I can imagine what she’ll look like when she dies, when her face slackens and the air abandons her lungs. Around her are objects, papers, photo frames filled wit…"-Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar
13. The Fortune Men
By: Nadifa Mohamed
3.80
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true event, this novel is “a blues song cut straight from the heart ... about the unjust… read more
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14. A Girl Is a Body of Water
By: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
4.15
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In her twelfth year, Kirabo, a young Ugandan girl, confronts a piercing question that has haunted h… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
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- african literature
"Remember, be a good person, not a good girl. Good girls suffer a lot in this life."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Explore it, love it, find out what it is capable of before you hand it over to a man."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Stories are critical, Kirabo. The minute we fall silent, someone will fill the silence for us."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
"Children do absolutely nothing on their arrival that warrants presents every year. If anything, they should give presents to their mothers, who come close to death."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, A Girl Is a Body of Water
15. An Orchestra of Minorities
By: Chigozie Obioma
3.68
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A contemporary twist on the Odyssey, An Orchestra of Minorities is narrated by the chi, or spirit o… read more
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"Mais il ignorait encore que rien, jamais, n’appartient pleinement à personne."-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"For the truth remains that more can also be more, and that less is often inevitably less."-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"Esprits protecteurs de l’humanité, avons-nous vraiment réfléchi aux puissances que déploie la passion chez l’humain ? Avons-nous examiné pourquoi un homme peut traverser un champ de flammes pour atte…"-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
"The daily life of lovers often begins to share resemblances, so that, in time, each day becomes indistinguishable from the one that came before it. The lovers carry each other's words in their hearts…"-Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities
16. Two Sherpas
By: Sebastián Martínez Daniell
3.62
Format: 271 pages, Paperback
A British climber has fallen from a cliffside in Nepal, and lies inert on a ledge below. Two sherpa… read more
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- literature
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"One minute it represents the pinnacle of gregarious engineering, the most refined Apollonian mechanism of social regulation; the next it’s a groping homunculus spewing pus and other people’s blood on…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Actions, thoughts, interpretations, dialogues and soliloquies, sufferings… are nothing more than intermittently surging projections, stamps on the surface of the knowable. Symptoms. The real is in th…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"Although it could be argued that every voyage already contains, in latent form, the possibility of its deviations. That they’re never random. That nor are they predestined. But they are larval, that …"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
"It’s a brief moment before the word is returned to the box of the irreversible, before it makes itself present with its flotilla of tragic predestinations. A regrettable loss, a true disaster. The li…"-Sebastián Martínez Daniell, Two Sherpas
17. 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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18. Havana Year Zero
By: Karla Suárez
3.63
Format: 256 pages, None
It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Z… read more
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19. Confessions of Nairobi Men
By: Joan Thatiah
4.34
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
Confessions of Nairobi Men is a culmination of three years Joan Thatiah has spent listening to stor… read more
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20. This Mournable Body
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
3.34
Format: 284 pages, Paperback
A searing novel about the obstacles facing women in Zimbabwe, by one of the country’s most notable … read more
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- africa
- novels
- literature
- zimbabwe
- fiction
- contemporary
- historical fiction
- african literature
- audiobook
"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"What we heard all the time is that you were not working. That's what was said, that that degree of yours was just a piece of paper sitting, silently rotting."-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"You begin to suspect that Cousin-Brother-in-Law and Nyasha are not being honest, that they found each other because neither possesses the hardiness success requires, so they have dressed discourageme…"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
"Christine has that layer under her skin that cuts off her outside from her inside and allows no communication between the person she once believed she could be and the person she has in fact become. …"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
21. In Our Mad and Furious City
By: Guy Gunaratne
3.87
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
For Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate, summer means what it do… read more
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"And doing anything for love in a city that deny it, is a rebellion."-Guy Gunaratne, In Our Mad and Furious City
