Jazz and Palm Wine (Global African Voices)
By: Emmanuel Dongala
3.73
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanue…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. 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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- africa
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"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
3. Les Fleurs du Mal
By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard
4.20
Format: 365 pages, Paperback
Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more
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"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"I am the vampire at my own veins."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal
4. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
By: Paul Torday
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
What does it take to make us believe in the impossible? For Dr. Alfred Jones, life is a quiet mixtu… read more
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5. They're Made Out of Meat
By: Terry Bisson
3.70
Format: None pages, ebook
Nebula Nomination for Best Short Story 1991. read more
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6. Breakfast of Champions
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Breakfast of Champions,one of Kurt Vonnegut's most beloved characters, the aging writer Kilgore … read more
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7. Indignez-vous !
By: Stéphane Hessel
2.64
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
<>Quelle chance de pouvoir nous nourrir de l'experience de ce grand resistant, rechappe des camps d… read more
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9. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
By: John Le Carré
3.94
Format: 322 pages, Paperback
In this classic, John le Carre's third novel and the first to earn him international acclaim, he cr… read more
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10. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
11. Go, Went, Gone
By: Jenny Erpenbeck
4.13
Format: None pages,
One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue. Richard has spent h… read more
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12. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke
By: Eric LaRocca
2.96
Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition
Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more
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13. En agosto nos vemos
By: Gabriel García Márquez
3.63
Format: 142 pages, Hardcover
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez Cada mes de a… read more
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"Do you know how old I am?"-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"The sea was an oasis of gold under the afternoon sun."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"They both lay listening intently to the sounds of their souls."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
"It was always a joyful love where even madness was admissible."-Gabriel García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos
14. Jazz and Palm Wine (Global African Voices)
By: Emmanuel Dongala
3.73
Format: 119 pages, Paperback
Jazz, aliens, and witchcraft collide in this collection of short stories by renowned author Emmanue… read more
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- magical realism
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- 20th century
- fiction
- african literature
