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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
Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award - Nominee - Winner - First Fiction
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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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Aya: The Secrets Come Out
Volume Three
Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
Drawn and Quarterly
Aya has captured the hearts of North American readers of all ages for the rare portrait it paints of a vibrant, happy, bourgeois Ivory Coast in the 1970s,...
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False Papers
André Aciman
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In these fourteen essays Andre Aciman, one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure...
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It Happened On the Way to War
A Marine's Path to Peace
Rye Barcott
Bloomsbury USA
“Riveting. A beautifully written memoir that reads like a novel and reveals fundamental truths about good, evil, and our common humanity.”—
Ishmael Beah, author of
A Long Way Gone
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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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The Smell of Apples
A Novel
Mark Behr
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Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times Winner of the M-Net Award Winner of The Eugene Marais Award Winner of the...
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In the Land of Magic Soldiers
A Story of White and Black in West Africa
Daniel Bergner
Picador
"The journalist and novelist Daniel Bergner is right . . . to see Africa's civil wars as a horror of our time that deserves exploration . . . Bergner has a keen eye . . . What is of value in this book is less what it says about Sierra Leone than about the human condition."—
Adam Hochschild,
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 Griffin
"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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They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children
The Global Quest to Eradicate the Use of Child Soldiers
Roméo Dallaire Ishmael Beah
Walker & Company
\u0022It is my hope that through the pages of this remarkable book, you will discover groundbreaking thoughts on building partnerships and networks to enhance...
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Sahara
The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert
Marq De Villiers with Sheila Hirtle
Walker & Company
In the parched and seemingly lifeless heart of the Sahara desert, earthworms find enough moisture to survive. Four major mountain ranges interrupt the flow of...
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Johnny Mad Dog
A Novel
Emmanuel Dongala; Translated from the French by Maria Louise Ascher
Picador
"Inspired by real events in Dongala's home of Congo-Brazzaville, this book would be an effective addition to a high school English, history, or global issues curriculum, especially supplemented with resources from organizations such as Human Rights Watch and the Office of the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Children in Armed Conflict . . . The novel has important messages for American educators . . . [I]t is a worldwide call for attention to children like Johnny who are swept up in the glory of war, and children like Laokolé who are caught in power struggles . . .
Johnny Mad Dog
breaks the silence on American complicity in fostering ethnic tensions and in inciting young people to war. . . . [and] raises powerful questions for all educators about the consequences of a lack of attention to education in countries torn by conflict."—
Harvard Education Review
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Imperial Reckoning
The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Caroline Elkins
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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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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha
Two Years in the Heart of an African Village
Sarah Erdman
Picador
"Erdman sets about her incremental work—wheedling mothers to weigh their babies, gently broaching the scandalous topic of AIDS—with the eye of a social scientist and the ear of a poet. It was a long and fascinating trip, and her delightful telling of it has me hoping she'll be packing for another one soon."—
Steve Hendrix,
The Washington Post
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Sweet and Sour Milk
Nuruddin Farah
Graywolf Press Paper
Winner of the 1980 English-Speaking Union Literary Award The first novel in Farah's universally acclaimed Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship...
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Close Sesame
A Novel
Nuruddin Farah
Graywolf Press Paper
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Sardines
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Nuruddin Farah
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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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Living in Hope and History
Notes from Our Century
Nadine Gordimer
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"Gripping and important . . . A rare glimpse of the crumbling of the last bastion of colonialism, told by a writer of consummate skill."—
Steven Harvey
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Get a Life
A Novel
Nadine Gordimer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"[Natalie Gordimer] is a most worldly writer, engaged for many years in South Africa's sulfurous politics, and those politics often find their way into her fiction. Yet her stories manage to avoid the narrative death rattle of the political novelist; they live on their own, free of propaganda. The working world is never far below the surface of Gordimer's books, existing side by side—sometimes easily, sometimes not—with the sexual life, all of it within the distinctive milieu of South Africa, though that nation has many aspects of a universal human condition. She is a writer of exceptional poise, writing tight, with ruffles and flourishes kept to a minimum . . . This novel begins superbly and ends wonderfully, and in between there are passages of high intelligence, not without Gordimer's signature asperity."—
Ward Just,
The Washington Post Book World
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Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
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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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