The Madwoman of Serrano
By: Dina Salústio
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalized…
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1. Tram 83
By: Fiston Mwanza Mujila , Roland Glasser
3.32
Format: 210 pages, Paperback
In an African city in secession, which could be Kinshasa or Lubumbashi, land tourists of all langua… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- african literature
"Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"He hiccupped and continued: "I write therefore I come...But unfortunately, my orgies are never eternal!..."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars."-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
"Yet torture is above all an art, an artistic discipline just like literature , cinema, or contemporary dance. All detained in the City-State ghettos bitterly missed the torturers of yesteryears, thos…"-Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Tram 83
2. Black Moses
By: Alain Mabanckou
3.44
Format: 208 pages, ebook
LONG-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE A rollicking new novel described as "Oliver T… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- 21st century
- african literature
- international
"Moi je veux pleurer maintenant, pas après ! Je veux être le premier parce que si je pleure après les autres comment on saura que moi aussi j'ai pleuré ?"-Alain Mabanckou, Black Moses
"Lorsque les Blancs sont venus en Afrique, nous avions la terre et ils avaient la Bible. Ils nous ont appris à prier les yeux fermés: lorsque nous les avons ouverts, les Blancs avaient la terre et nou…"-Alain Mabanckou, Black Moses
3. Beka Lamb
By: Zee Edgell
3.80
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Set in Belize, Beka Lamb is the record of a few months in the life of Beka and her family. The poli… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
"When the rains finally came that drought year, Beka's Dad tried to persuade Lilla to concentrate on bougainvillea, crotons, and hibiscus. Plants like these grew easily and luxuriantly in the yard, bu…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib pe…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"We can't sit down and keep rehashing what people did to us in the past, Ma, or use those injustices as any kind of complete excuse for our present situation. Every people have some kind of grievance.…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
"Peace and happiness!' Miss Ivy was laughing an ugly laugh that hurt Beka's ear. She jumped off the platform and went to stand a the kitchen door. There was a hurt look on Lilla's face, and seeing it,…"-Zee Edgell, Beka Lamb
4. By Night the Mountain Burns
By: Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel , Jethro Soutar
2.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
By Night The Mountain Burnsrecounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West Africa… read more
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- africa
- magical realism
- fiction
- 21st century
- african literature
5. Chaka
By: Thomas Mofolo , Daniel P. Kunene
4.27
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Tells the classic story of the Zulu hero Chaka. read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
6. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- africa
- international
- fiction
- african literature
7. Reading the Ceiling
By: None
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Ayodele has just turned eighteen and has decided, having now reached womanhood, that the time is ri… read more
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8. Petit pays
By: Gaël Faye
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Avant, Gabriel faisait les quatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis. Et puis l… read more
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9. In the Shadow of the Banyan
By: Vaddey Ratner
3.81
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
For seven-year-old Raami, the shattering end of childhood begins with the footsteps of her father r… read more
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10. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
By: Loung Ung
4.34
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
From a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting… read more
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"In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means."-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"I think how the world is still somehow beautiful even when I feel no joy at being alive within it. "-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"No one knows how precious you are. You are a diamond in the rough and with a little polishing, you will shine,"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
"This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside me now. The Angkar has taught me to hate so deeply that I now know I have the power to des…"-Loung Ung, First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
11. Houseboy
By: Ferdinand Oyono , John Reed
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
Toundi Ondoua, the rural African protagonist of Houseboy, encounters a world of prisms that cast be… read more
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12. The Ultimate Tragedy
By: Jethro Soutar , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
The first novel to be translated into English from Guinea Bissau, The Ultimate Tragedy is a tale of… read more
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13. Broken Glass
By: Alain Mabanckou , Helen Stevenson
4.20
Format: 252 pages, Paperback
Alain Mabanckou's riotous new novel centers on the patrons of a run-down bar in the Congo. In a cou… read more
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14. A Disappearance in Fiji
By: Nilima Rao
3.89
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
A charming and atmospheric debut mystery featuring a 25-year-old Indian police sergeant investigati… read more
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- fiction
15. God Is a Black Woman
By: Christena Cleveland
4.32
Format: 256 pages, ebook
In this timely, much-needed book, theologian, social psychologist, and activist Christena Cleveland… read more
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16. The Ardent Swarm
By: Yamen Manai
4.10
Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition
From an award-winning Tunisian author comes a stirring allegory about a country in the aftermath of… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"A God that could still console him for the cruelty of man through the gentleness of his bees."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
"Most of them hadn’t even chosen their spouses, and now they were meant to choose who would govern them."-Yamen Manai, The Ardent Swarm
17. When the Ground Is Hard
By: Malla Nunn
4.15
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
In this stunning and heartrending tale set in a Swaziland boarding school, two girls of different c… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
"Jane is stuck in the space between things."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Books are better than gossip, though Delia doesn't think so."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"A dark wind lifts dirt into the air. The land absorbs the sobs of the women and the flinty silence of the gravediggers. The long fields and tall hills swallow us all."-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
"Where would Jane be without that inheritance from her long-lost uncle? If she was in Swaziland, I'll tell you where she'd be: living in a grass hut with nothing to eat but porridge. A blind and cripp…"-Malla Nunn, When the Ground Is Hard
18. Co-wives, Co-widows
By: Adrienne Yabouza
3.87
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Bangui, Central African Republic. This is the story of Ndongo Passy and Grekpoubou, the two widows … read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- african literature
19. The Fisherman King
By: Kathrina Mohd Daud
3.84
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Finalist for the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize Eight years ago, Lisan the fisherman, who has … read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
20. The Madwoman of Serrano
By: Dina Salústio
3.40
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalized… read more
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- cultural
- literary fiction
- africa
- magical realism
- fiction
- contemporary
- 21st century
- cabo verde
- african literature
- international
21. The Tears of a Man Flow Inward: Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi
By: Pacifique Irankunda
3.83
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A prize-winning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi's civil war in a p… read more
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- 21st century
- africa
