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  • Call and Response: Stories
    Gothataone Moeng
    Paperback: 02/06/2024
     
    Richly drawn stories about the lives of ordinary families in contemporary Botswana as they navigate ...
  • The History of a Difficult Child: A Novel
    Mihret Sibhat
    Paperback: 02/01/2024
     
    A breathtaking, tragicomic debut novel about the indomitable child of a scorned, formerly land-owning family ...
  • The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years: A Novel
    Shubnum Khan
    Hardcover: 01/09/2024
     
    "A dark and heady dream of a book" (Alix E. Harrow) about a ruined mansion by the sea, the djinn that haunts ...
  • Dazzling
    Chikodili Emelumadu
    Hardcover: 12/05/2023
     
    The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmad&#...
  • Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
    David Diop
    Hardcover: 09/19/2023
     
    The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
  • Afterlives: A Novel
    Abdulrazak Gurnah
    Paperback: 09/05/2023
     
    From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, ...
  • The Lioness: A Novel
    Chris Bohjalian
    Paperback: 05/02/2023
     
    A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this riveting historical ...

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