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GraceLand
A Novel
Chris Abani
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"
GraceLand
amply demonstrates that Abani has the energy, ambition, and compassion to create a novel that delineates and illuminates a complicated, dynamic, deeply fractured society."—
Merle Rubin,
Los Angeles Times
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - Nominee - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
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A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Ishmael Beah
Sarah Crichton Books
"What is it about African wars that is so disturbing? Why do they unsettle us so? . . . The great benefit of Ishmael Beah's memoir,
A Long Way Gone
, is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this situation. Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine—perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . .
A Long Way Gone
is his first, remarkable book. . . . Beah's memoir joins an elite class of writing: Africans witnessing African wars . . .
A Long Way Gone
makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah seems to prove it can happen."—
William Boyd,
The New York Times Book Review
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Escape from Slavery
The True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity and My Journey to Freedom in America
Francis Bok with Edward Tivnan
St. Martin's Griffin
"Bok takes the Sudanese government and world leaders to task for their indifference to his people's suffering. Although he at first was an unwilling ambassador, he has become a leading voice for the antislavery movement in the United States."—
Detroit News and Free Press
"A touching modern-day slave narrative that is more than just an account of [Bok's] journey from childhood to manhood under the worst of circumstances . . . Pages of historical details are eye-opening and provide a glimpse into what can happen when religion is the impetus in the governing of a nation . . . An informative, inspiring read."—
The Boston Globe
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A Princess Found
An American Family, an African Chiefdom, and the Daughter Who Connected Them All
Sarah Culberson and Tracy Trivas
St. Martin's Press
"A mannered account of a biracial woman raised by a white family in West Virginia who was reunited joyfully with her African family . . . The juxtaposition of the two narratives is deliberately jarring. While Culberson was being crowned Homecoming Queen, her family and other Mende people faced ambush, amputations—a favorite terror tactic of the rebels—and homelessness. As a girl growing up, Culberson was accused by other blacks of not being 'black enough' . . . Culberson's wrenching coming-of-age tale ably chronicles her love and acceptance by both of her families . . . Inspiring."—
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The Lassa Ward
One Man’s Fight Against One of the World’s Deadliest Diseases
Ross I. Donaldson, MD, MPH
St. Martin's Press
"Donaldson started out as an earnest, well-meaning American medical student, off on a great African adventure. He came of age in the middle of a raging epidemic, civil war, and hideous poverty, discovering a humanity few Americans ever experience. Donaldson has bared his soul, offering a lesson that should be required reading for every doctor-in-training."
—Laurie Garrett, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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Imperial Reckoning
The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
Holt Paperbacks
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"When the British left Kenya in 1963, they built bonfires and burned the meticulous records they kept. Most of these dealt with a period known as 'the Emergency,' when the colonial government attempted to stamp out the Mau Mau movement . . . that arose among the Kikuyu, a hill-dwelling farming tribe and Kenya's largest ethnic group. Elkins, working in archives and traveling throughout Kenya, has undertaken an extraordinary act of historical recovery, to find out what the burned documents would have told us: the British, in their 'civilizing mission' to pacify the colony, created a cruel system of detention centers, where interrogations often ended in death. With the moral fervor [of] a prosecutor, Elkins provides potent evidence of how a society warped by racism can descend into an almost casual inhumanity."—
The New Yorker
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The Invisible Cure
Why We Are Losing the Fight Against AIDS in Africa
Helen Epstein
Picador
“Reading
The Invisible Cure
is like traveling into remote and hard-to-comprehend territory with an unblinking and sure-footed guide . . . [Epstein] teaches me things I didn’t know. Her rigorous reporting unearths new findings among old, worn-out issues. And the evidence she puts forward could provide a roadmap for comprehensive prevention programs that incorporate teaching abstinence, using condoms and, most critically, emphasizing fidelity.”—
John Donnelly
, The New York Times Book Review
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An Elegy for Easterly
Stories
Petina Gappah
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"Petina Gappah's stories range from scathing satire of Zimbabwe's ruling elite to earthy comedy to sensitive accounts of the sufferings of humble victims of the regime. Gappah is a fine writer and a rising star of Zimbabwean literature."
—J. M. Coetzee
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
And Other Stories
Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"[This] newest collection of stories,
Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
, finds Gordimer poking at embers of the fire that has fueled her work since the very beginning, more than half a century ago: politics, both racial and sexual; our responsibilities to unknown (and perhaps unknowable) others; and, especially, the dangers of delving into history without adequate preparation . . . Nadine Gordimer is more interesting, and provocative, than most."—
The Washington Post
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There Is No Me Without You
One Woman's Odyssey to Rescue Her Country's Children
Melissa Fay Greene
Bloomsbury USA
"Greene ably dons the mantle of historian, recounting Ethiopian history; and that of the science writer, exploring the origins of the AIDS virus; and of the social commentator, taking to task the drug companies and Western politicians who should have done more much sooner to help avert disaster. She writes simply and declaratively but also cleverly."—
Bill Eichenberger,
The Columbus Dispatch
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Lose Your Mother
A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Saidiya Hartman
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"An original, thought-provoking meditation on the corrosive legacy of slavery from the 16th century to the present and a welcome illustration of the powers of innovative scholarship to help us better understand how history shapes identity. But the book is also—this must be stressed—splendidly written, driven by this writer's prodigious narrative gifts. She combines a novelist's eye for telling detail with the blunt, self-aware voice of those young writers who have revived the American coming-of-age story into something more engaging and empathetic than the tales of redemption or of the exemplary life well lived, patterned on Henry Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass."—
Elizabeth Schmidt,
The New York Times Book Review
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Machete Season
The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Jean Hatzfeld
Picador
"Harrowing. The reader is drawn in, in effect eavesdropping on a casual conversation among killers . . . Readers who can get beyond their (justified) initial horror will find a wealth of detail here about the genocide."—
Alison Des Forges,
The Washington
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The Antelope's Strategy
Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Jean Hatzfeld; Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale
Picador
"'Why keep on?' asks Claudine Kayitesi, a Tutsi survivor living in relative peace in Nyamata, Rwanda. Her question is not a philosophical one, though that would be understandable given what she has experienced—rape, displacement, the murder of a sister and many others. Rather, her query is directed at the persistent questions of the French journalist Jean Hatzfeld, who has returned to the war-torn landscape he wrote about in two previous books,
The Machete Season
and
Life Laid Bare
, to speak again to survivors and perpetrators of the 1994 genocide. Why Hatzfeld keeps on asking questions is among the many thought-provoking issues at the heart of his new book,
The Antelope's Strategy
. Seven years after his reporting for
Machete Season
, Hatzfeld finds a much-changed Rwanda: The terrors of war have been replaced by an awkward—and sometimes dangerous—atmosphere of forced reconciliation. Some Hutu prisoners have been released or have returned from exile to live among the families of those they killed. 'Not one prisoner came asking for forgiveness,' says Kayitesi. A Hutu ex-convict notes, 'I was charged, I was convicted, I was pardoned. I did not ask to be forgiven.' Hatzfeld captures this tension gracefully, weaving lengthy interview excerpts with his own artfully written observations. The result is a book that illustrates vividly the thorny realities that accompany survival and appeasement. 'People are living peacefully, but actually they are avoiding one another,' Kayitesi comments in the book's final pages. 'We'll be humble and nice, we'll share, we'll cooperate as we should. But believing them is unthinkable.'"—
Nora Krug,
The Washington Post
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War Child
A Child Soldier's Story
Emmanuel Jal
St. Martin's Griffin
"Remember, this is a little kid, not even 10 years old, all alone. Hatred, by now, is the only thing that sustains him, hatred for his father, who so brutally double-crossed him, hatred for the Arabs, who he presumes are responsible for this war. There's no glamour here, no pitched battles, only unimaginable misery. Finally, after about two years in the camp, he's recruited into the SPLA, and his real troubles begin. He's beaten and tortured in every possible fashion . . . When he finally does get to kill a few Arabs, he feels no sense of triumph, just sadness. They're human, too, it seems. A couple of miracles happen . . . we know there is a happy ending; otherwise, there wouldn't be this book. Jal becomes a believing Christian and gospel singer. He sets up an organization to help lost boys, but he's . . . often tired and sad and lonely, but in
War Child
he succeeds in making this crazy war and all its ramifications utterly grounded, specific and real . . . You'll come away from this book loving Emmanuel Jal."—
Carolyn See,
The Washington Post Book World
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The Heart of Redness
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Bewitching . . . [An] inspired synthesis of history, myth and satire . . . and about post-apartheid South Africa by extension . . . Luxuriantly steeped in African customs . . . [Mda is] one of his country's most trenchant current voices."—
Janet Maslin,
The New York Times
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The Madonna of Excelsior
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
An American Library Association Notable Book
"As South Africa's political imperatives have shifted, so too have those of Mda's fiction. No longer fixated on apartheid's horrors and its wished-for end, his work now examines the difficulties of transition: bourgeois decadence and the abandonment of revolutionary principles . . . the many dark shadows of political freedom.
The Madonna of Excelsior
[is] among the most profound and revealing portraits of life in post-apartheid South Africa. Mda succeeds in creating a South African present of compromise, bitten anger, hypocrisy, and conflicting perspective . . . Perhaps his best work."—
Benjamin Austen,
Harper's
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The Whale Caller
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Zakes Mda's fifth novel,
The Whale Caller
, is an oddball love story, wonderfully timeless and familiar . . . With an offhanded mastery of lyrical language, this gifted storyteller's prose shimmers without extravagance. As if awash in unremitting sun,
The Whale Caller
begins as a reverie, illuminating the beauty of imperfect love and the thrill of struggling to maintain it. Yet in the end, beyond the whimsy and whales, the deeper, darker concern here is not so much the fragility of love, but the fragility of life itself when one surrenders wholly to the foolish heart."—
The Washington Post Book World
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Cion
A Novel
Zakes Mda
Picador
"Takes the traditional pattern of a picaresque novel—an episodic recounting of roguish schemes gone awry—and decorates it with a richly textured overlay of embroidery, applique, collage and found art . . . Mda writes about hardscrabble lives without dwelling on the hardscrabble . . . Mda's elegant patchwork of clever storytelling, wry characterization and good-natured humor is more than enough."—
John R. Alden,
The Plain Dealer
(Cleveland)
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All Things Must Fight to Live
Stories of War and Deliverance in Congo
Bryan Mealer
Bloomsbury USA
“The country's agonies are far from over, but, in Bryan Mealer's new book
All Things Must Fight to Live
, they now at least have their definitive account . . . It is Mealer's gift that even when he is covering what is, journalistically, well-worn territory—the fog of war, the addictive and atrophied life of a combat reporter—his writing is not only fresh but empathetic . . . With the maturity and talent he displays in this book, Mealer could have a dazzling future as a chronicler of distant lands. He has already set a new standard by which all correspondents might approach other forgotten wars.”—
Time
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Dead Aid
Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa
Dambisa Moyo; Foreword by Niall Ferguson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
“An incendiary new book . . . Here is a refreshing voice . . . What makes
Dead Aid
so powerful is that it’s a double-barrelled shotgun of a book. With the first barrel, Moyo demolishes all the most cherished myths about aid being a good thing. But with the second, crucially, she goes on to explain what the West could be doing instead.”—
Christopher Hart,
The Daily Mail
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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Murder and Memory in Uganda
Andrew Rice
Metropolitan Books
"Tyrant, killer, buffoon: Idi Amin was unforgettable. But his victims have largely been forgotten. Andrew Rice rescues one man’s memory, gives him a face and a voice and lets him speak for a multitude of the dead. This is reporting at its best—as gripping as any murder mystery, but far more important, because every painful word is true."
—Robert Guest, former Africa editor of
The Economist
and author of
The Shackled Continent
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The Overwhelming
A Play
J. T. Rogers
Faber and Faber, Inc.
"I loved how messy the play's structure is, and Rogers’s great ambition as a writer . . . the Third World is seen in the harsh glare of a bare light bulb—the author's intelligence . . . [Rogers] explores a kind of anthropology of the self, making a narrative out of his own disenfranchisement."—
Hilton Als,
The New Yorker
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Aya
Marguerite Abouet & Clément Oubrerie
Drawn and Quarterly
“That’s what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the . . . war and famine, an Africa that endures despite everything because, as we say back home, life...
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Aya of Yop City
Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
Drawn and Quarterly
“[Aya] wittily delves into both the political and the pop during an enchanted era when anything seemed possible.” —Vibe Vixen The original Drawn & Quarterly...
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