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A Novel
Hardcover: Mar 2025 | Paperback: Mar 2026
In his first new novel since winning the 2021 Nobel Prize, a master storyteller captures a time of dizzying global change.
A Novel
Hardcover: Jun 2023 | Paperback: Feb 2024
A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family who must grow up in the wake of Ethiopia's socialist revolution
A Novel
Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of East Africa.
A Novel
Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: May 2023
A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant.
Coming of Age in the Somali Desert
Hardcover: Aug 2021 | Paperback: Jul 2022
"I am the last nomad. My ancestors traveled the East African desert in search of grazing land for their livestock, and the most precious resource of all - water. When they exhausted the land and the clouds disappeared from the horizon, their ...
Stories
Hardcover: Jun 2022
Winner of the 2020 Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing and the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, Ethiopian American author Meron Hadero's gorgeously wrought stories in A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times offer poignant, ...
Hardcover: Sep 2020 | Paperback: Jun 2021
International-award-winning author Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel is a sweeping and powerful portrait of a young girl and her family: who they are, what history has taken from them, and--most importantly--how they find their way back to each ...
A Novel
Hardcover: Sep 2019 | Paperback: Oct 2020
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, and named a best book of the year by the New York Times, NPR, Elle, Time, and more, The Shadow King is an "unforgettable epic from an immensely talented author who's unafraid to take risks" (Michael Schaub, NPR)...
Hardcover: Mar 2019 | Paperback: Mar 2020
An electrifying debut from the winner of the 2015 Caine Prize for African writing, The Old Drift is the Great Zambian Novel you didn't know you were waiting for.
A Novel
Hardcover: Mar 2018 | Paperback: Aug 2019
A mesmerizing, indelible coming-of-age story about a girl in Boston's tightly-knit Ethiopian community who falls under the spell of a charismatic hustler out to change the world
A Memoir
Hardcover: Jun 2018 | Paperback: May 2019
The incredible true story of a boy living in war-torn Somalia who escapes to America--first by way of the movies; years later, through a miraculous green card.
A Sands of the Emperor Novel
Hardcover: Apr 2018 | Paperback: Apr 2019
The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa's most important writers.
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