Cultural Region/African
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Scatterlings
$26.99 Add to cartA BEST NEW BOOK from *Vanity Fair *The Root *Vulture *People *The Washington Post *Christian Science Monitor *Los Angeles Times *Essence
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Pick! A New Yorker
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0063264110
- Language: English
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All Your Children, Scattered
$18.00 Read moreFINALIST FOR THE 2023 FRENCH-AMERICAN FOUNDATION TRANSLATION PRIZE
WINNER OF THE PRIX ﾉTHIOPHILE, THE PRIX DES RACINES ET DES MOTS, AND THE PRIX DES CINQ CONTINENTS DE LA FRANCOPHONIE
Beata Umubyeyi
- Author: Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1609457854
- Language: English
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A Kind of Madness
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist for NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut
Finalist for Caine Prize For African Writing An Oprah Daily Most Anticipated Book of 2024 “Steady-handed and gut-punching. I’m in awe.”- Author: Okonkwo, Uche
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030388
- Language: English
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Patience Is a Subtle Thief
$18.99 Add to cartHope and circumstance define a young woman’s life in this heartbreaking tale of lost innocence, set in politically volatile 1990s Nigeria, from an exciting and fresh voice in global literature.
For as
- Author: Ishola-Ayodeji, Abi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0063116928
- Language: English
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Dele Weds Destiny
$17.00 Read moreA VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – The story of three once-inseparable college friends in Nigeria who reunite in Lagos for the first time in thirty years–a sparkling novel about the extraordinary … [more below]
- Author: Obaro, Tomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0593314506
- Language: English
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True at First Light
$19.00 Add to cartBoth a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway’s last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 06 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865726
- Language: English
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The Swann Way
$12.95 Add to cart‘The memory of a particular image is only regret for a particular moment…’
The Swann Way is the first volume of Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913-27), one of the most important novels of- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Proust, Marcel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 14 2023
- ISBN10: 019887152X
- Language: English
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Impostures
$48.00 Add to cartOne of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Books of the Year
Winner, 2020 Sheikh Zayed Book Award, Translation Category
Shortlist, 2021 National Translation Award Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award, Literature Ca- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #65
- Author: Al-?ar?r?
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1479800848
- Language: English
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Mothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology
$21.99 Add to cartMothersound: The Sauútiverse Anthology is the first anthology of stories set in a fictional shared world based on a blend of African cultural worldviews. Edited by Locus award nominated editor Wole T
- Author: Talabi, Wole
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 436
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1958121606
- Language: English
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A Hundred and One Nights
$19.00 Add to cartA luminous translation of Arabic tales of enchantment and wonder
Translated into English for the very first time, A Hundred and One Nights is a marvelous example of the rich tradition of popular Arabi- Series: Library of Arabic Literature #10
- Author: Fudge, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1479873233
- Language: English
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Return to Dar Al-Basha
$9.95 Add to cartReturn to Dar al-Basha by the contemporary Tunisian author Hassan Nasr depicts the childhood of Murtada al-Shamikh and his return forty years later to his home in the medina or old city of Tunis. Afte
- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Nasr, Hassan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0815608780
- Language: English
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Sleepwalking Land
$16.95 Add to cartMia Couto’s first novel, judged one of the twelve best African books of the 20th century
- Author: Couto, Mia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: April 01 2006
- ISBN10: 185242897X
- Language: English
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Tears of the Giraffe
$18.00 Add to cartFans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series and its proprietor, Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective. In this charming series, Mma Ramotswe–with … [more below]
- Series: No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #2
- Author: McCall Smith, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 03 2002
- ISBN10: 1400031354
- Language: English
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Scatterlings
$18.99 Add to cartIn 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in t… [more below]
- Author: Manenzhe, Resoketswe Martha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0063264129
- Language: English
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Ways of Dying
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the M-Net Book Prize
In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a professional mourner in a vast and violent city of the new South
Shortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards- Author: Mda, Zakes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420919
- Language: English
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Under Our Skin
$18.00 Add to cart1570. A street teems with activity in Renaissance Lisbon: boatmen unload passengers as jugglers entertain the crowd and vendors hawk their goods. The crowd is large, and more than half of it is Black.
- Author: Soutar, Jethro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1951213521
- Language: English
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The Quality of Mercy
$19.95 Add to cartWinner, Outstanding Fiction Book Prize, Zimbabwe National Arts Merit Awards
Shortlist, 2023 Sunday Times Literary Awards
Best African Books of 2023, African Arguments
From 2022 Windham Campbell Prize wi… [more below]
- Author: Ndlovu, Siphiwe Gloria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1946395862
- Language: English
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An African Night’s Entertainment
$14.99 Add to cart‘Put your money on this sheepskin, ‘ said the old man, ‘and if, by the time I finish my tale, there is one of you awake, that man shall claim everything we have collected.’ Follow this tale of love, d
- Author: Ekwensi, Cyprian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 196061102X
- Language: English
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The Memoirs of Cleopatra
$30.00 Add to cartBestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series
- Author: George, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0312187459
- Language: English
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Mount Pleasant
$26.99 Add to cartA majestic tale of colonialism and transformation, Patrice Nganang’s Mount Pleasant tells the astonishing story of the birth of modern Cameroon, a place subject to the whims of the French and the Germ
- Author: Nganang, Patrice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118417
- Language: English
