11 Best contemporary books like All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

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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…

If you liked the contemporary plot in All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. 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
  • novels
  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • african literature
"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

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2. Čefurji raus!

By: Goran Vojnović

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

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  • novels
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of Eve out of Her Ruins by J.M.G. Le Clézio, Jeffrey Zuckerman, Ananda Devi

3. Eve out of Her Ruins

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Jeffrey Zuckerman , Ananda Devi

4.00

Format: 10 pages,

"Devi writes about terrible and bitter events with a soft, delicate voice."--Le Figaro With brutal … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels

4. Where We Once Belonged

By: Sia Figiel

4.34

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Alofa Filiga struggles to come to terms with womanhood, her search for identity, … read more

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5. 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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6. 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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7. No Room at the Morgue

By: Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.76

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the works of Dashiell Hammett, No Room at the Morgue is Jean-Patrick Manchette's unpara… read more

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  • novels
  • france
  • fiction
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8. Tranorna flyger söderut

By: Lisa Ridzén

4.26

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

En varm debutroman i samma anda som Löpa varg. Om en åldrad mans kamp för att behålla makten över s… read more

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  • novels
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  • contemporary
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9. 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
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  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
"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

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10. 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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11. Hard by a Great Forest

By: Leo Vardiashvili

3.90

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Amid rubble and rebuilding in a former Soviet land, one family must rescue one another and put the … read more

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  • contemporary
  • literary fiction
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12. This Strange Eventful History

By: Claire Messud

3.63

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

An immersive, masterful story of a family born on the wrong side of history, from one of our finest… read more

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  • africa
  • war
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"Literature... Now, that's a religion I can believe in. That is perhaps my God."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"Family life, like playing chess, involved always thinking several steps ahead."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"... she'd been a fool, enamored of a figment, had created the soul of a man who never existed -"

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

"All-U-Can Hi-way 4-Sale Thru. This American English thrilled him - its energy, its freedom, its carelessness."

-Claire Messud, This Strange Eventful History

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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
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  • contemporary
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  • 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

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14. 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

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  • literary fiction
  • africa
  • rwanda
  • france
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  • historical fiction
  • african literature
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15. La bastarda

By: Trifonia Melibea Obono

3.55

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

La protagonista, Okomo, una adolescente de etnia fang, atrapada en un sistema de valores que no le … read more

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  • africa
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  • contemporary
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16. That Hair

By: Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida

3.10

Format: 200 pages, ebook

“The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiograp… read more

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  • africa
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  • contemporary
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17. The Barefoot Woman

By: Scholastique Mukasonga

4.11

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from th… read more

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  • africa
  • france
  • rwanda
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"Ils voulaient nous dire à nous les femmes tutsi: 'Ne donnez plus la vie car c'est la mort que vous donnez en mettant en monde. Vous n'êtes plus porteuses de vie, mais porteuses de mort."

-Scholastique Mukasonga, The Barefoot Woman

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18. 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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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

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  • france
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • african literature
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20. Förhöjningen

By: Malin Ullgren

3.13

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

"Hon hade inte varit beredd att förlora något. Hon hade velat ha något. På sätt och vis var det int… read more

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21. So Distant From My Life

By: Monique Ilboudo

3.72

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

Jeanphi, a young man from the fictional West African city Ouabany, has one obsession that will dete… read more

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16 Top fiction books like All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Transform Your Habits

Black Moses

Alain Mabanckou

3.44

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Čefurji raus!

Goran Vojnović

4.75

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Eve out of Her Ruins

J.M.G. Le Clézio , Jeffrey Zuckerman , Ananda Devi

4.00

Transform Your Habits

No Room at the Morgue

Jean-Patrick Manchette

3.76

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12 best-selling fiction books like La bastarda by Trifonia Melibea Obono

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Bitter Eden

Tatamkhulu Afrika

3.87

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Precoz

Ariana Harwicz

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin , Ari Larissa Heinrich

2.77

Transform Your Habits

Last Night in Nuuk

Niviaq Korneliussen

3.59

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