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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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Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond Novels)
Ian Fleming
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Tiffany Case, a cold, gorgeous, devil-may-care blonde, stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond-smuggling ring that stretches from Africa to London to the United States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the...
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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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Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts
Clive James
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
Forty years in the making, a new cultural canon that celebrates truth over hypocrisy, literature over totalitarianism. Echoing Edward Said's belief that "Western humanism is not enough, we need a universal humanism," the renowned critic Clive...
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Arrow of God
Chinua Achebe
Anchor
Anchor
Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.
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Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)
Chinua Achebe
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
About the Series : No other series of classic texts equals the caliber of the Norton Critical Editions . Each volume combines the most authoritative text available with the comprehensive pedagogical apparatus necessary to appreciate the work...
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Disgrace (Penguin Essential Editions)
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Disgrace --set in post--apartheid Cape Town and on a remote farm in the Eastern Cape--is deft, lean, quiet, and brutal. A heartbreaking novel about a man and his daughter, Disgrace is a portrait of the new South Africa that is ultimately about...
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The River Between (AWS African Writers Series)
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Heinemann
Heinemann
Christian missionaries attempt to outlaw the female circumcision ritual and in the process create a terrible rift between the two Kikuyu communities on either side of the river.
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"You’re not responsible for your ancestry, are you . . . But if that’s so, why have marched under banned slogans, got yourself beaten up by the police, arrested a couple of times; plastered walls with subversive posters . . . The past is valid...
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Age of Iron
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
In Cape Town, South Africa, an old woman is dying of cancer. A classics professor, Mrs. Curren has been opposed to the lies and brutality of apartheid all her life, but has lived insulated from its true horrors. Now she is suddenly forced to come to...
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