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The Actual True Story Of Ahmed And Zarga

by Larry Siems e Mohamedou Ould Slahi

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 This stirring, poetic tale features a Bedouin man whose irrepressible love for his family, his camels, and his way of life fuels his harrowing journey into the Sahara Desert to find a lost camel and his struggle to preserve a culture on the brink of profound change.
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Paper Sons And Daughters - Growing Up Chinese In South Africa

by Ufrieda Ho

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 Ufrieda Ho's compelling memoir describes with intimate detail what it was like to come of age in the marginalized Chinese community of Johannesburg during the apartheid era of the 1970s and 1980s.
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Fine Boys - A Novel

by Eghosa Imasuen

30,41€ + 10% CARD

 Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s.
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The Actual True Story Of Ahmed And Zarga

by Larry Siems e Mohamedou Ould Slahi

16,33€ + 10% CARD

 This stirring, poetic tale features a Bedouin man whose irrepressible love for his family, his camels, and his way of life fuels his harrowing journey into the Sahara Desert to find a lost camel and his struggle to preserve a culture on the brink of profound change.
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The Wolf At Number 4 - A Novel

by Ayo Tamakloe-Garr

12,48€ + 10% CARD

 When Desire Mensah, a disgraced school teacher in her thirties, meets Wolfgang â€œWolfâ€ Ofori, an eleven-year-old genius, a strange friendship develops between them. Set in 1990s Ghana, The Wolf at Number 4 is a chilling and funny gothic tale that forces us to confront whether the wolves around us are born or made.
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The Conscript - A Novel Of Libya'S Anticolonial War

by Gebreyesus Hailu

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 Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature.
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The Extinction Of Menai - A Novel

by Chuma Nwokolo

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 In a novel of stunning scope, Chuma Nwokolo moves across time and place to deliver a story that speaks to urgent contemporary concerns. His characters' indelible voices offer perspectives that are simultaneously global, political, and intimately human.
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Thirteen Cents - A Novel

by K. Sello Duiker

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 Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is thirteen-year-old Azure who makes his living on the streets. This book tells his story.
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Mrs. Shaw - A Novel

by Mukoma Wa Ngugi

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 In the fictional East African Kwatee Republic of the 1990s, the dictatorship is about to fall, and the nationâ€™s exiles are preparing to return. One of these exiles, a young man named Kalumba, is a graduate student in the United States, where he encounters Mrs.
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From Sleep Unbound

by Andrée Chedid

17,28€ + 10% CARD

 Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn.
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From Sleep Unbound

by Andrée Chedid

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 Eventually sundered from every human attachment, Samya lapses into despair and despondence, and finally an emotionally caused paralysis. But when she shakes off the torpor of sleep, the sleep of avoidance, she awakens to action with the explosive energy of one who has been reborn.
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For You, I'D Steal A Goat - Short Stories

by Niq Mhlongo

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 For You, Iâ€™d Steal a Goat is a vibrant collection of short stories filled with memorable characters, intriguing plots, and twist endings. Mhlongoâ€™s stories are critical, erudite, and masterfully crafted using satire and careful deliberation to connect to the quotidian lived experiences of readers.
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Fine Boys - A Novel

by Eghosa Imasuen

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 Set in Nigeria during the pro-democracy movement and told from the perspective of an eighteen-year-old Gen-Xer, Ewaen, this coming-of-age novel examines the violent university confraternities during the mid-1990s.
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The Cape Cod Bicycle War - And Other Stories

by Billy Kahora

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 Billy Kahoraâ€™s long-awaited debut collection includes stories that have appeared in Granta and McSweeneyâ€™s, and have been shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing.
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Staging The Amistad - Three Sierra Leonean Plays

by Charlie Haffner, Raymond E. D. De'Souza George e Yulisa Amadu Maddy

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 Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
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Expecting Teryk - An Exceptional Path To Parenthood

by Dawn Prince-Hughes

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 The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society would strip of its magic.
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Disarming Manhood - Roots Of Ethical Resistance

by David A. J. Richards

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 Masculine codes of honor and dominance often are expressed in acts of violence, including war and terrorism.
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The Dust Within The Rock - A Novel

by Frank Waters

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The Selected Poems Of Yvor Winters

by Yvor Winters

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 Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky. His impact on mid- to late-twentieth-century poetry is profound.
Tales Of The Metric System - A Novel

by Imraan Coovadia

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 In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country's transition from imperial to metric measurements as his catalyst, holding South Africa up and examining it from the diverse perspectives of his many characters. An elite white housewife married to a radical intellectual; a rock guitarist; the same guitarist's granddaughter thirty years later; a teenaged boy at the mercy of mob justice-each story takes place over one of ten days across the decades, and each protagonist has his own stakes, her own moment in time, but each is equally caught in the eddies of change. Tales of the Metric System is clear eyed, harrowing, and daring.
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Staging The Amistad - Three Sierra Leonean Plays

by Charlie Haffner, Raymond E. D. De'Souza George e Yulisa Amadu Maddy

63,09€

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 Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
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Staging The Amistad - Three Sierra Leonean Plays

by Charlie Haffner, Raymond E. D. De’Souza George e Yulisa Amadu Maddy

21,13€ + 10% CARD

 Staging the Amistad collects for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone's most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the 20th century. Written and staged before and after the start of Sierra Leone's decade-long conflict, they brought the Amistad rebellion to public consciousness.
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The Swallow Anthology Of New American Poets

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 Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently begun to make an important mark on contemporary poetry, and their accomplishment and influence will only grow with time.
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A Literary Guide To Provence

by Daniel Vitaglione

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 Provence through the eyes of its writersâ€"those who wrote of it in ProvenÃ§al or French and also those visitors who were moved by its beautyâ€"that is the inspiration behind A Literary Guide to Provence.
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