Elsewhere, Home
By: Leila Aboulela
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith …
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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
- fiction
- african literature
"For knowing and refusing to know."-Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu
2. Second Class Citizen
By: Buchi Emecheta
4.09
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
A poignant story of a resourceful Nigerian woman who overcomes strict tribal domination of women an… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost."-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"Adah could not stop thinking about her discovery that the whites were just as fallible as everyone else. There were bad whites and good whites, just as there were bad blacks and good blacks! Why then…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
"She, who only a few months previously would have accepted nothing but the best, had by now been conditioned to expect inferior things. She was now learning to suspect anything beautiful and pure. Tho…"-Buchi Emecheta, Second Class Citizen
3. The Yacoubian Building
By: Alaa Al Aswany , علاء الأسواني , Humphrey T. Davies
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
This controversial bestselling novel in the Arab world reveals the political corruption, sexual rep… read more
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- contemporary
- africa
- fiction
- egypt
4. Happiness
By: Aminatta Forna
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Hardcover
"Not since Remains of the Dayhas an author so skillfully revealed the way history's layers are ofte… read more
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5. 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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6. The Blue Between Sky and Water
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.15
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
From the internationally bestselling author of Mornings in Jenin, a novel about four generations of… read more
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7. Stay with Me
By: Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
3.91
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expect… read more
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8. The Hired Man
By: Aminatta Forna
3.45
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful… 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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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- african literature
"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. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
11. The Beauty of Your Face
By: Sahar Mustafah
4.19
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A Palestinian American woman wrestles with faith, loss, and identity before coming face-to-face wit… read more
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- literary fiction
- religion
- fiction
- contemporary
"You do not laugh at someone who is trying; only at fools who do not give themselves a chance."-Sahar Mustafah, The Beauty of Your Face
12. Nightbloom
By: Peace Adzo Medie
3.96
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Peace Adzo Medie, author of Reese’s Book Club pick His Only Wife , returns with a moving novel abou… read more
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- literary fiction
- africa
- fiction
- contemporary
- african literature
13. 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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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
14. Customs: Poems
By: Solmaz Sharif
4.21
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In Customs , Solmaz Sharif examines what it means to exist in the nowhere of the arrivals terminal,… read more
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- contemporary
15. Behind You Is the Sea
By: Susan Muaddi Darraj
4.14
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting debut novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American communi… read more
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- literary fiction
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
16. Against the Loveless World
By: Susan Abulhawa
4.50
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radical… read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
"From him I learned who those legislating morality and pretending to be more virtuous than the rest of us really are."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"But I know now that going from place to place is just something exiles have to do. Whatever the reason, the earth is never steady beneath our feet."-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"The continuity of these traditions helped bridge the spaces between dislocation and the home I had forged in my birthright homeland, but I knew I could never again be complete in one place. This was …"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
"Music is like spoken language, inextricable from its culture. If you don't learn a language early in life, its words will forever come out wrinkled and accented by another world, no matter how well y…"-Susan Abulhawa, Against the Loveless World
17. The House of Rust
By: Khadija Abdalla Bajaber
3.58
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl’s fantastical sea voyage t… read more
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- africa
- fiction
- african literature
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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- literary fiction
- africa
- sudan
- fiction
- contemporary
19. The Readers' Room
By: Antoine Laurain
3.70
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
When the manuscript of a debut crime novel arrives at a Parisian publishing house, everyone in the … read more
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- literary fiction
- fiction
- contemporary
20. Thirteen Months of Sunrise
By: Rania Mamoun
3.78
Format: 73 pages, Kindle Edition
Thirteen Months of Sunrise is a collection of stories by the author, journalist, and activist, Rani… read more
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- africa
- sudan
- short stories
- fiction
- contemporary
- african literature
21. Elsewhere, Home
By: Leila Aboulela
3.69
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
From one of our finest contemporary writers whose work has been praised by J.M. Coetzee, Ali Smith … read more
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- africa
- sudan
- egypt
- short stories
- religion
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- contemporary
- african literature
