The Tears of the Black Man (Global African Voices)
By: Alain Mabanckou
3.78
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be bl…
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1. Stupeur et tremblements
By: Amélie Nothomb
3.73
Format: 187 pages, Mass Market Paperback
This is an alternate cover edition for isbn13: 9782253150718 Au début des années 90, la narratr… read more
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- france
"هناك فهمت حقيقة مهمة: في اليابان، الحياة هي الشركة."-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
"كان يابانيا من بين آلاف آخرين، عبدا وجلادا في الوقت نفسه."-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
"أما فوبوكي فلم تكن لا إلها ولا شيطانا, كانت امرأة يابانية"-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
"Le donne che non hanno il diritto di sognare portano nomi che fanno sognare"-Amélie Nothomb, Stupeur et tremblements
2. Thérèse Raquin
By: Émile Zola , Robin Buss
3.73
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
One of Zola's most famous realist novels, Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of… read more
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- france
"Quando non c’è più speranza nel futuro, il presente si colora di una spaventosa amarezza."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir à jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"Au fond une pensée unique les rongeait : ils s’irritaient contre leur crime, ils se désespéraient d’avoir a jamais troublé leur vie."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
"They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist."-Émile Zola, Thérèse Raquin
3. I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem
By: Angela Y. Davis , Maryse Condé , Richard Philcox
4.25
Format: 159 pages, Paperback
"Stunning...Maryse Conde's imaginative subversion of historical records forms a critque of contempo… read more
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- france
4. Home
By: Toni Morrison
3.89
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A taut and tortured story about one man's desperate search for himself in a world disfigured by war… read more
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5. The Year of the Hare
By: Arto Paasilinna
3.92
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
A journalist and a photographer set out on an assignment on lovely sunny evening. As they drive thr… read more
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6. God's Bits of Wood
By: Ousmane Sembène , Francis Price
3.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, O… read more
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7. 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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8. I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
By: Linda Coverdale , Delphine Minoui , Nujood Ali
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
"I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since foreve… read more
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9. 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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10. The End of Eddy
By: Édouard Louis , None
3.82
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The most talked-about European novel since My Struggle--a sexually frank, brutally honest coming-of… read more
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11. Une vie
By: Guy de Maupassant
3.86
Format: 299 pages, Paperback
Jeanne, ayant fini ses malles, s'approcha de la fenêtre, mais la pluie ne cessait pas. L'averse, t… read more
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"After all, life is never so jolly or so miserable as people seem to think."-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie
"One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death."-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie
"Then she added, no doubt in answer to her own thoughts: 'You see, life is never as good or as bad as one thinks.' "-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie
"Human nature itself seemed to her obscene, when she thought of all the filthy secrets of sensuality, the degrading caresses, all the mysterious connexions that cannot be broken off, at which she gues…"-Guy de Maupassant, Une vie
12. The Heart of a Woman
By: Maya Angelou
3.25
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Maya Angelou has fascinated, moved, and inspired countless readers with the first three volumes of … read more
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13. Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
By: Stefan Zweig , Mahmure Kahraman
3.90
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Zweig bu novellasında bir kadının yaşamını bütünüyle değiştiren yirmi dört saatlik deneyimini anlat… read more
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"La vérité à demi ne vaut rien, il la faut toujours entière."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Değerli olan her zaman için gerçeğin yarısı değil, tamamıdır."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Envejecer no significa otra cosa que no tener miedo al pasado"-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
"Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute ceux qui se portent à leur secours."-Stefan Zweig, Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat
14. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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15. Silk
By: Alessandro Baricco
3.37
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
When an epidemic threatens to destroy the silk trade in France, the young merchant Herve Joncour le… read more
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16. Cyrano de Bergerac
By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson
3.81
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more
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17. Le Consentement
By: Vanessa Springora
4.30
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Au milieu des années 1980, élevée par une mère divorcée, V. comble par la lecture le vide laissé pa… read more
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- nonfiction
- france
"Si las relaciones sexuales entre un adulto y un menor de quince años son ilegales, ¿por qué esa tolerancia cuando son obra del representante de una élite, un fotógrafo, un escritor, un cineasta o un …"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"No, ese hombre no albergaba los mejores sentimientos. Ese hombre no era bueno. Era lo que aprendemos a temer desde niños: un ogro. Nuestro amor era un sueño tan potente que nada, ni una sola de las p…"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"I would recall my mission in life - pleasuring men. That was my condition, my status. And so I would offer my services anew, with renewed zeal, and with a simulated conviction that I even managed to …"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
"What he loved more than anything was making love. Who could blame him? When it came to sex, I oscillated between feeling all-powerful and completely apathetic. Sometimes I was filled with a feeling o…"-Vanessa Springora, Le Consentement
18. Quand tu écouteras cette chanson
By: Lola Lafon
4.40
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Le 18 août 2021, j'ai passé la nuit au Musée Anne Frank, dans l'Annexe. Anne Frank, que tout le mon… read more
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- france
19. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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- france
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
20. Comme nous existons
By: Kaoutar Harchi
4.25
Format: 140 pages, None
Kaoutar Harchi mène dans ce livre une enquête autobiographique pour saisir, retranscrire au plus pr… read more
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21. The Tears of the Black Man (Global African Voices)
By: Alain Mabanckou
3.78
Format: 86 pages, Paperback
In The Tears of the Black Man, award-winning author Alain Mabanckou explores what it means to be bl… read more
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- africa
- race
- the united states of america
- france
- nonfiction
- essays
- african literature
