Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in Africa.
Africa
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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Masquerade
by O.O. Sangoyomi
Hardcover: Jul 2024
Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman's fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she'll go to secure her future.
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Call and Response: Stories
by Gothataone Moeng
Hardcover: Feb 2023
Paperback: Feb 2024
Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate relationships, tradition and caretaking in a rapidly changing world.
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The History of a Difficult Child: A Novel
by Mihret Sibhat
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
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The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
by Shubnum Khan
Hardcover: Jan 2024
"A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts it, and a curious girl who unearths the tragedy that happened there a hundred years previous
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Dazzling
by Chikodili Emelumadu
Hardcover: Dec 2023
The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology.
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Africa Is Not a Country: Notes on a Bright Continent
by Dipo Faloyin
Hardcover: Sep 2022
Paperback: Nov 2023
An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers.
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Afterlives: A Novel
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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.
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African Europeans: An Untold History
by Olivette Otele
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: Aug 2023
A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent.
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River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
by Candice Millard
Hardcover: May 2022
Paperback: May 2023
The harrowing story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time and its complicated legacy - from the New York Times bestselling author of River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic.
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The Lioness: A Novel
by Chris Bohjalian
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.
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Ghost Season: A Novel
by Fatin Abbas
Hardcover: Jan 2023
A dynamic, beautifully orchestrated debut novel connecting five characters caught in the crosshairs of conflict on the Sudanese border.
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