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Book Recommendations for General Fiction, set in Middle & Southern Africa

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  • Our Beautiful Darkness: A Graphic Novel
    ‍ Ondjaki, Lyn Miller-Lachmann
    Hardcover: 07/23/2024
     
    A blackout leads two teens to discover the intimacy and vulnerability that can only be shared in darkness in ...
  • Gothataone Moeng
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate ...
  • Damon Galgut
    Paperback: 03/15/2022
     
    A modern family saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by twice Booker ...
  • Nana Nkweti
    Paperback: 06/01/2021
     
    A "boisterous and high-spirited debut" (Kirkus starred review), named one of the Most Anticipated Books for ...
  • Patrice Nganang
    Paperback: 08/11/2020
     
    The second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II.
  • Recipes for Love and Murder: A Tannie Maria Mystery
    Sally Andrew
    Paperback: 09/27/2016
     
    A bright new talent makes her fiction debut with this first entry in a delicious crime set in rural South ...
  • Eliot Schrefer
    Paperback: 08/25/2015
     
    The story of a boy fleeing his present, a man fleeing his past, and a trio of chimpanzees who are struggling ...

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