Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
By: Wole Soyinka
3.16
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospi…
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1. Admiring Silence
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.98
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
A man who has escaped from his native Zanzibar and built a new life in England is finally able to r… read more
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"We were strolling along the waterfront, his favourite walk, going nowhere in particular, the postcolonial condition."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence
"In no time at all after I moved, I was overcome by the enormity of my abandonment, like someone weeping in a crowd. I was astonished by the sudden surge of loneliness and terror I felt when I realize…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence
"I have found myself leaning heavily on this pain. At first I tried to silence it, thinking it would go and leave me to my agitated content. That it would linger for a season, a firm reminder of the d…"-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Admiring Silence
2. The Snow Queen
By: Michael Cunningham
3.08
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
The Snow Queen, beautiful and heartbreaking, comic and tragic, proves again that Cunningham is one … read more
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"It’s remarkable, being alive."-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"What’s the most fundamental human urge?"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"Women are kind of screwed, in the world,"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
"Isn’t the universe full of gaseous elements?"-Michael Cunningham, The Snow Queen
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4. Slumberland
By: Paul Beatty
3.62
Format: 32 pages,
The breakout novel from a literary virtuoso about a disaffected Los Angeles DJ who travels to post-… read more
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5. Plum Bun: A Novel without a Moral
By: Jessie Redmon Fauset
3.76
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement's most important and… read more
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6. Duplex
By: Kathryn Davis
3.81
Format: 263 pages, Hardcover
Mary and Eddie are meant for each other--but love is no guarantee, not in these suburbs. Like all c… read more
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7. A Replacement Life
By: Boris Fishman
3.62
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes… read more
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8. Paradise
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise is at once the story of an African boy's coming of age, a tragic love story, and a tale of… read more
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9. Tuff
By: Paul Beatty , Jenny Minton
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
As fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays, Tuffshows off all of the amazing sk… read more
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10. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
11. Africa's Tarnished Name
By: Chinua Achebe
4.40
Format: 56 pages, Paperback
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others… read more
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"Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animal together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"People are wrong when they tell you that Conrad was on the side of Africans because his story showed great compassion towards them. Africans are not really served by his compassion, whatever it means…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
"The poor of the world may be guilty of this and that particular fault or foolishness, but if we are fair we will admit that nothing they have done or left undone quite explains all the odds we see st…"-Chinua Achebe, Africa's Tarnished Name
12. Praiseworthy
By: Alexis Wright
3.91
Format: 736 pages, Paperback
Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with the richness of language and scale… read more
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13. Value(s): Building a Better World for All
By: Mark Carney
3.70
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
A bold, urgent argument on the misplacement of value in financial markets and how we can and need t… read more
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14. War in Ukraine
By: Medea Benjamin
3.82
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
“This careful, informed, judicious study is an invaluable guide to understanding the background, ch… read more
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15. 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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"How, with all your education, do you come to be more needy than your mother?"-Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body
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"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
16. Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
By: Wole Soyinka
3.16
Format: 444 pages, Hardcover
In an imaginary Nigeria, a cunning entrepreneur is selling body parts stolen from Dr. Menka's hospi… read more
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17. Why I Don't Write
By: Susan Minot
3.39
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
A superb collection of short fiction—her first in thirty years and spanning many geographies—from t… read more
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"When she'd heard the news on the phone it had torn a hole in her and she went immediately hard and did not cry. If she let herself feel, the part of her that was left would be riddled wigth holes and…"-Susan Minot, Why I Don't Write
"So she attended classes which were throughly altered now, as. if a water wash had brushed over everything, streaking lines, and pulling the color out. Grief turned out to be slow moving. Situations w…"-Susan Minot, Why I Don't Write
"You think you are done with an experience once it is over and it is set into some version in a story. And there it will sit. But if you return to the experience many years later, because you are, say…"-Susan Minot, Why I Don't Write
18. Extreme North: A Cultural History
By: Bernd Brunner
3.24
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global … read more
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19. The Freedom Artist
By: Ben Okri
3.48
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Book… read more
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"If they are awake while everyone else was sleeping, what on earth were they doing?"-Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist
"No one in the house had seen books for generations. We didn't even know what they were. We'd only heard that they were poisonous and that they ruined the mind, and that no one was to have anything to…"-Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist
"Naturally, the quality of language changed. Certain words became suspicious and vanished from public life. Words like 'hope', 'rights', 'truth'. Anyone heard uttering those words found empty spaces a…"-Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist
"Her father's books were not read in a normal way. Some of them were read with the hands. Some were read by placing them at the centre of the forehead. One of the books could only be read with eyes cl…"-Ben Okri, The Freedom Artist
20. A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On (Weatherhead Books on Asia)
By: Dung Kai-cheung
2.88
Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition
Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimps… read more
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21. In Praise of Disobedience: The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Works of Wilde’s annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British pl… read more
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