Le kafir du Karthala (French Edition)
By: Mohamed Toihiri
3.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Idi Wa Mazamba, médecin aux Comores, tombe amoureux d'une Française. Or les mariages et les liaison…
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1. Annie John
By: Jamaica Kincaid
3.71
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua.… read more
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- fiction
"Like father like son, like mother like daughter!"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I began to feel alternately too big and too small. First, I grew so big that I took up the whole street; then I grew so small that nobody could see me — not even if I cried out."-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"I went back to my cabin and lay down on my berth. Everything trembled as if it had a spring at its very center. I could hear the small waves lap-lapping around the ship. They made an unexpected sound…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
"She smelled sometimes of lemons, sometimes of sage, sometimes of roses, sometimes of bay leaf. At times I would no longer hear what it was she was saying; I just liked to look at her mouth as it open…"-Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John
2. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By: Junot Díaz
3.89
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghet… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
"You can't regret the life you didn't lead."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"It's never the changes we want that change everything."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
"I might have no one in the world, but at least I’m free."-Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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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- the world
- 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. 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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- african literature
- fiction
5. Told by Starlight in Chad
By: Joseph Brahim Seid , Translated by Karen Haire Hoenig
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
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- the world
- african literature
- fiction
6. The Radiance of the King
By: James Kirkup , Camara Laye
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
At the beginning of this masterpiece of African literature, Clarence, a white man, has been shipwre… read more
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- african literature
- fiction
7. So Long a Letter
By: Mariama Bâ , Modupé Bodé-Thomas
4.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
This novel is in the form of a letter, written by the widowed Ramatoulaye and describing her strugg… read more
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- african literature
- fiction
8. The Purple Violet of Oshaantu
By: None
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
This is the story of a woman who refuses to mourn her husband's death. The village knew she was an … read more
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9. Three Strong Women
By: Marie NDiaye , John Fletcher
2.92
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye c… read more
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11. The Sun Will Soon Shine
By: None
4.67
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
For an intelligent, ambitious girl growing up in a Gambian village, life holds few tempting prospec… 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. Beyond the Rice Fields
By: None , None
3.68
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The first novel from Madagascar ever to be translated into English, Naivo's magisterial Beyond the … read more
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14. Afterlives
By: Abdulrazak Gurnah
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. A… read more
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- fiction
"... the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"He suffered his small share of the unavoidable indignities of childhood."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
"I have nothing,’ he said. ‘Nor do I,’ she said. ‘We’ll have nothing together."-Abdulrazak Gurnah, Afterlives
15. In the Country of Others
By: Leïla Slimani
3.76
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
The award-winning, #1 internationally bestselling new novel by the author of The Perfect Nanny--a p… read more
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- fiction
"À présent qu'aucun retour en arrière n'était possible, elle se sentait forte. Forte de ne pas être libre."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
"J'admire ceux qui avec un cœur sincère acceptent le martyr des leurs. Mais je comprends encore mieux ceux qui veulent les sauver à tout prix."-Leïla Slimani, In the Country of Others
16. The Old Drift
By: Namwali Serpell
3.74
Format: 576 pages, Hardcover
A Zambian debut novel that follows three generations of three families, telling the story of a nati… read more
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- fiction
"Every family is a war but some are more civil than others."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Only a sister, an alternative self, could inspire such a sordid mix of disgust and envy."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"She stepped from the trashy bedlam of the road into the cool cave of the shop, relieved to escape the experience of walking outside while female."-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
"Old like her father was old, a shaggy shambling old, an old where you'd lost the order of things and felt so sad that you simply had to embrace the loss, reassuring yourself with the lie that you had…"-Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift
17. She Would Be King
By: Wayétu Moore
4.00
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s forma… read more
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- african literature
- fiction
"Loneliness while in the presence of others is a most cruel kind"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"This was his mother. This was his poetic lo e, whose fallen shadow broke his spirit as he sprinted with the wind. She was gone."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"How can you leave me?' Maisy had said one night. 'You are my sister now. My flesh. Flesh cannot leave you.' At which Gbessa almost lost her breath. The kindness, the newness, stunned her."-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
"We did not have books on Emerson. That place where we lost our language, lost ourselves. They told us we had no history but darkness, so they kept the books away for fear we might understand the trut…"-Wayétu Moore, She Would Be King
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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- african literature
- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- fiction
- contemporary
20. Catherine the Great and the Small
By: Olja Knezevic
3.96
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Catharine's tragectory in life is accompanied by failures in love, family traumas and an incredible… read more
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- fiction
- contemporary
21. Le kafir du Karthala (French Edition)
By: Mohamed Toihiri
3.13
Format: None pages, Paperback
Idi Wa Mazamba, médecin aux Comores, tombe amoureux d'une Française. Or les mariages et les liaison… read more
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- the world
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- contemporary
- african literature
