6 Top africa books like Le Ventre de l'Atlantique by Fatou Diome

Le Ventre de l'Atlantique

By: Fatou Diome

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Salie vit en France. Son frere, Madicke, reve de l'y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui…

If you liked the africa plot in Le Ventre de l'Atlantique by Fatou Diome , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash

1. Daughters of the Dust

By: Julie Dash

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Inspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put he… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of How to Make Love to a Negro by Dany Laferrière, David Homel

2. How to Make Love to a Negro

By: Dany Laferrière , David Homel

3.77

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Racial and sexual politics collide in this cult classic that launched Laferrière as one of North Am… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • school
  • read for school
"Le Nègre selon National Geographic"

-Dany Laferrière, How to Make Love to a Negro

Cover of Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) by Clayton Eshleman, Aimé Césaire, Annette Smith, Annette Smith

3. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

By: Clayton Eshleman , Aimé Césaire , Annette Smith , Annette Smith

4.10

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural … read more

Similar categories in Clayton Eshleman's Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series) book and Fatou Diome's Le Ventre de l'Atlantique

  • africa
  • france
  • french literature
  • school
"A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle."

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"Écoutez le monde blanc horriblement las de son effort immense ses articulations rebelles craquer sous les étoiles dures ses raideurs d'acier bleu transperçant la chair mystique écoute ses victoires p…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

"And if all I know how to do is speak, it is for you that I shall speak. My lips shall speak for miseries that have no mouth, my voice shall be the liberty of those who languish in the dungeon of desp…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

". . . car il n'est point vrai que l'oeuvre de l'homme est finie que nous n'avons rien à faire au monde que nous parasitons le monde qu'il suffit que nous nous mettions au pas du monde mais l'oeuvre d…"

-Clayton Eshleman, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land (Wesleyan Poetry Series)

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4. The Sirens of Baghdad

By: Yasmina Khadra , John T. Cullen

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

“Yasmina Khadra may well be the most powerful and serious writer in French since his Algerian compa… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"If you haven’t lost your mind yet, that’s because you haven’t seen very much."

-Yasmina Khadra, The Sirens of Baghdad

"Life has rules, Omar, and without some of them, humanity would return to the Stone Age."

-Yasmina Khadra, The Sirens of Baghdad

"I looked her up and down. She wouldn’t meet my eyes. I didn’t recognize her anymore. She was nothing like the image of her I had in my head. Her features meant nothing to me; she was someone else."

-Yasmina Khadra, The Sirens of Baghdad

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5. Allah Is Not Obliged

By: Frank Wynne , Ahmadou Kourouma

3.70

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED TO BE FAIR ABOUT ALL THE THINGS HE DOES HERE ON EARTH.These are the words of t… read more

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  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • african literature
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6. Les Soleils des indépendances

By: Ahmadou Kourouma

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Quel sera le sort de Fama, authentique prince malinke, aux temps de l'independance et du parti uniq… read more

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  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • african literature

7. Le Ventre de l'Atlantique

By: Fatou Diome

4.20

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Salie vit en France. Son frere, Madicke, reve de l'y rejoindre et compte sur elle. Mais comment lui… read more

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  • africa
  • school
  • read for school
  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
  • african literature
Cover of L'Énigme du retour by Dany Laferrière

8. L'Énigme du retour

By: Dany Laferrière

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Un jeune homme de vingt-trois ans a quitte son pays de facon precipitee. Un homme epuise y retourne… read more

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  • fiction
  • france
  • french literature
  • school
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9. 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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  • africa
  • france
  • fiction
  • african literature

10. Aya (Aya #1)

By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. Fantasia

By: Assia Djebar , None

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this stunning novel, Assia Djebar intertwines the history of her native Algeria with episodes fr… read more

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14. The Dark Child

By: James Kirkup , Camara Laye , None , None

3.19

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

The Dark Child is a distinct and graceful memoir of Camara Laye's youth in the village of Koroussa,… read more

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15. The Meursault Investigation

By: John Cullen , Kamel Daoud

3.00

Format: 253 pages, Paperback

He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic … read more

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16. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

Cover of De la Turquie à la Grèce (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #2) by Fabien Toulmé

17. De la Turquie à la Grèce (L'Odyssée d'Hakim #2)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.75

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

Suite du récit de l'histoire vraie d'Hakim, réfugié syrien en exil, ce deuxième tome aborde avec ém… read more

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  • france
Cover of Ce que je sais de toi by Éric Chacour

18. Ce que je sais de toi

By: Éric Chacour

4.43

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

Dans le Caire des années 1980, un jeune médecin suit un destin tracé pour lui. Entre son dispensair… read more

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  • france
  • fiction
"Le jour, ses mains en prolongement des tiennes sur le corps des patients. La nuit, son corps en prolongement du tien sous tes mains impatientes."

-Éric Chacour, Ce que je sais de toi

Cover of Les femmes du bout du monde by Mélissa Da Costa

19. Les femmes du bout du monde

By: Mélissa Da Costa

4.01

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Si tu te demandes ce que nous faisons ainsi, loin des hommes, je vais te dire : nous veillons sur n… read more

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  • france
  • french literature
  • fiction
Cover of Les impatientes by Djaïli Amadou Amal

20. Les impatientes

By: Djaïli Amadou Amal

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Trois femmes, trois histoires, trois destins liés. Ce roman polyphonique retrace le destin de la j… read more

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  • africa
  • school
  • france
  • fiction
  • african literature
Cover of De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1) by Fabien Toulmé

21. De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

L’histoire vraie d’un homme qui a dû tout quitter : sa famille, ses amis, sa propre entreprise... p… read more

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  • france

11 Best fiction books like Le Ventre de l'Atlantique by Fatou Diome

Transform Your Habits

Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash

4.33

Transform Your Habits

How to Make Love to a Negro

Dany Laferrière , David Homel

3.77

Transform Your Habits

The Sirens of Baghdad

Yasmina Khadra , John T. Cullen

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Allah Is Not Obliged

Frank Wynne , Ahmadou Kourouma

3.70

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10 Best fiction books like Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash

Transform Your Habits

Daughters of the Dust

Julie Dash

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Perfect Peace

Daniel Black

4.32

Transform Your Habits

The Secret History of Las Vegas

Chris Abani

3.87

Transform Your Habits

South of Broad

Pat Conroy

3.55

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