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Things Fall Apart: A Novel
Chinua Achebe
Anchor
Anchor
One of Chinua Achebe's many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart , is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years...
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Say You're One of Them
Uwem Akpan
Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company
Uwem Akpan's stunning stories humanize the perils of poverty and violence so piercingly that few readers will feel they've ever encountered Africa so immediately. The eight-year-old narrator of "An Ex-Mas Feast" needs only enough money to buy...
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Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Anchor
Anchor
With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience...
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Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
These deluxe editions are packaged with French flaps, acid-free paper, and rough front. "A real literary event."-- The New York Times Book Review "A story of profound beauty, clarity and eloquence, which even at its most melodramatic holds to a...
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Disgrace: A Novel
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
David Lurie is hardly the hero of his own life, or anyone else's. At 52, the protagonist of Disgrace is at the end of his professional and romantic game, and seems to be deliberately courting disaster. Long a professor of modern languages at Cape...
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The River Between (AWS African Writers Series)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
...that rarity, an almost wordless love story that avoids pseudo-nobility while remaining proudly and distinctively African. - The Guardian Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a...
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Scribner
Scribner
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the...
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The Lives of Animals (The University Center for Human Values Series)
J. M. Coetzee
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying...
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The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics)
Bertolt Brecht
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Brutal, scandalous, perverted, yet humorous, hummable, and with a happy endingBertolt Brechts revolutionary masterpiece The Threepenny Opera is a landmark of modern drama that has become embedded in the Western cultural imagination. Through the...
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