Matigari
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Who is Matigari? Is he young or old; a man or fate; dead or living...or even a resurrection of Jesu…
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1. Waiting for the Barbarians
By: J.M. Coetzee
3.93
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny fr… read more
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- africa
- classics
- literature
- fiction
- historical fiction
- african literature
"Nothing is worse than what we can imagine"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"Schmerz ist Wahrheit; alles andere wird angezweifelt."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"A fool in love is laughed at but in the end always forgiven"-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
"I am now no more than a pile of blood, bone and meat that is unhappy."-J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians
2. La virgen de los sicarios
By: Fernando Vallejo
3.71
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
«La Virgen de los Sicarios es una descarnada parodia de la violencia que afectó a Medellín durante … read more
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- literature
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"Dios no existe y si existe es la gran gonorrea."-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios
"¡Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!"-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios
"¡Qué es! ¡Qué és! ¡Qué es! Se ve. Se siente. El pueblo está presente."-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios
"Uno en las comunas sube hacia el cielo pero bajando hacia los infiernos."-Fernando Vallejo, La virgen de los sicarios
3. In the Heart of the Country
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Paperback
Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa, and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lo… read more
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- literature
- african literature
- classics
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4. Blue of Noon
By: Harry Mathews , Georges Bataille , Ken Hollings
3.86
Format: 568 pages, Paperback
Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this twentieth-century erotic classic take… read more
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- literature
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5. The Parable Of The Blind
By: Gert Hofmann , Christopher Middleton
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
Inspired by Parabel der Blinden (1568), a painting by Netherlandish artist Pieter Bruegel, the nove… read more
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- literature
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6. Paradise of the Blind
By: Dương Thu Hương , Nina McPherson , Phan Huy Đường
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
Paradise of the Blindis an exquisite portrait of three Vietnamese women struggling to survive in a … read more
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- literature
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- historical fiction
7. Concrete
By: Thomas Bernhard , David McLintock
3.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Instead of the book he's meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this tale of pr… read more
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- literature
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8. Couples, Passersby
By: Botho Strauß , Roslyn Theobald
3.32
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In Couples, Passersby, the controversial German writer Botho Strauss deftly combines the fantastic … read more
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- literature
- classics
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9. Lieutenant Gustl
By: Arthur Schnitzler
4.23
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the centur… read more
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10. W, or the Memory of Childhood
By: Georges Perec , David Bellos
3.81
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Combining fiction and autobiography in a quite unprecedented way, Georges Perec leads the reader in… read more
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- literature
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12. Matigari
By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
3.45
Format: 94 pages, Hardcover
Who is Matigari? Is he young or old; a man or fate; dead or living...or even a resurrection of Jesu… read more
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- africa
- classics
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- kenya
13. Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
By: Bettany Hughes
4.06
Format: 663 pages, Hardcover
Istanbulexplores a city which stands as a gateway between the east and west, one of the indisputabl… read more
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14. The Comfort of Strangers
By: Ian McEwan
3.79
Format: 249 pages, Paperback
"Haunting and compelling." --The Times As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into th… read more
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15. The Castle of Crossed Destinies
By: Italo Calvino
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are … read more
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16. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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17. The Thing Around Your Neck
By: None
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow, and longing, the stories in The Thing Around Yo… read more
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18. A Tale of Love and Darkness
By: Amos Oz , Nicholas de Lange
4.23
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, A Tale of Love and Darkness is at once a family saga and a magic… read more
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"If you steal from one book you are condemned as a plagiarist, but if you steal from ten books you are considered a scholar, and if you steal from thirty or forty books, a distinguished scholar."-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"When my father was a young man in Vilna, every wall in Europe said, "Jews go home to Palestine." Fifty years later, when he went back to Europe on a visit, the walls all screamed, "Jews get out of Pa…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Papa used to say that wealth is a sin and poverty is a punishment but that God apparently wants there to be no connection between the sin and the punishment. One man sins and another is punished. Tha…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
"Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you c…"-Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness
19. Cockroaches
By: Scholastique Mukasonga , Jordan Stump
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of you… read more
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20. Foe
By: J.M. Coetzee
4.67
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to --and in so doing, d… read more
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21. July's People
By: Nadine Gordimer
4.67
Format: 107 pages,
For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the ci… read more
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22. Nervous Conditions
By: Tsitsi Dangarembga
4.54
Format: 253 pages,
A modern classic in the African literary canon and voted in the Top Ten Africa's 100 Best Books of … read more
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23. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
By: Chinua Achebe
3.73
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more
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- classics
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- historical fiction
"Let us not reason like cowards,"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"There is no story that is not true."-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
24. The Souls of Black Folk
By: W.E.B. Du Bois , None , None
3.62
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) is the greatest of African American intellectuals--a s… read more
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25. Reasons to Live
By: Amy Hempel
4.44
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
It is always "earthquake weather" in Amy Hempel's California, a landscape where everything can chan… read more
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26. Old Masters: A Comedy
By: Thomas Bernhard , Ewald Osers
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
In this exuberantly satirical novel, the tutor Atzbacher has been summoned by his friend Reger to m… read more
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27. Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
By: Lea Ypi
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For precocious 11-year-old Lea Ypi, Albania’s Soviet-style socialism held the promise of a preordai… read more
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"In March, they said we were all victims. They accepted us. In August, they looked at us as if we were some kinds of menace, like we were about to eat their children."-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"Todavía hoy asocio todos nuestros esfuerzos por enterarnos de lo que pasaba en el mundo exterior al nombre de Dajti, la apartada cordillera que rodeaba nuestra capital y dominaba su paisaje como si l…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"In the past, one would have been arrested for wanting to leave. Now that nobody was stopping us from emigrating, we were no longer welcome on the other side. The only thing that had changed was the c…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
"[...]Many of those friends were self-declared socialists - Wester socialists, that is. They spoke about Rosa Luxemburg, Leon Trotsky, Salvador Allende or Ernesto 'Che' Guevara as secular saints. It o…"-Lea Ypi, Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History
28. Glory
By: NoViolet Bulawayo
3.70
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of the Booker-prize finalist We Need New Names, a blockbuster of a no… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"The dead are not dead, glory to the ancestors!"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"And today they'll call the thing all sort of queer names, I've even heard it called a genocide. But I myself call it service."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"Words not only mattered but they were power. Words were muti. Words were weapons. Words were magic. Words were church. Words were wealth. Words were life."-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
"If I don't write, then who will I blame when I wake up one day to find myself in the belly of a crocodile that calls itself History, that devours the stories of everyone else and goes on to speak for…"-NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory
29. Tyll
By: Daniel Kehlmann
3.94
Format: 474 pages, Hardcover
Tyll, der neue Roman des Erfolgsautors Daniel Kehlmann – er veröffentlichte u.a. Die Vermessung der… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"What should he do if word went around that in his throne room hung a magic picture that only the highborn could see, but he couldn't? Of course there was no picture there, it had been one of the fool…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
"Die Liebe zu den Kindern - besser, man kämpft gegen sie an. Man kommt ja auch nicht einem Hund zu nahe; sogar wenn er freundlich aussieht, kann er zuschnappen. Stets muss man einen Abstand lassen zwi…"-Daniel Kehlmann, Tyll
30. A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
By: Nathan Thrall
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE FOR GENERAL NON-FICTION Named a Best Book of the Year by The N… read more
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31. Frankenstein in Baghdad
By: Ahmed Saadawi
3.58
Format: 281 pages, Paperback
From the rubble-strewn streets of U.S.-occupied Baghdad, Hadi--a scavenger and an oddball fixture a… read more
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- literature
- fiction
"Death stalked the city like the plague."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Each of us has a measure of criminality."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"None of us should think only of ourselves."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
"Your wonderful stories saved you, my friend."-Ahmed Saadawi, Frankenstein in Baghdad
