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AFRICAN LITERATURE AND DRAMA
114 BOOKS IN THIS CATEGORY
A NOVEL
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 02/20/2018
Price: $17.00
ISBN: 978-1-101-97298-4
A stunning debut from a new voice in Nigerian literature: a mesmerizing, Kafkaesque narrative, informed by the life of musical superstar Fela Kuti.
The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Lagos, the exiled musician Taduno knows that the time has come to return home. Arriving back in Nigeria full of hope, he soon discovers that his people no longer recognize or remember him or his music, and that his girlfriend, Lela, has disappeared, abducted by government agents. As Taduno unravels the...
The day a stained brown envelope arrives from Lagos, the exiled musician Taduno knows that the time has come to return home. Arriving back in Nigeria full of hope, he soon discovers that his people no longer recognize or remember him or his music, and that his girlfriend, Lela, has disappeared, abducted by government agents. As Taduno unravels the...
A NOVEL
Format: Hardcover, 272 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: 08/22/2017
Price: $25.95
ISBN: 978-0-451-49460-3
"A stunning debut novel." —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
This celebrated, unforgettable first novel (“A bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit.” –The Guardian), shortlisted for the prestigious Bailey’s Prize and set in Nigeria, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage--and the forces that threaten to tear it apart.
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several...
This celebrated, unforgettable first novel (“A bright, big-hearted demonstration of female spirit.” –The Guardian), shortlisted for the prestigious Bailey’s Prize and set in Nigeria, gives voice to both husband and wife as they tell the story of their marriage--and the forces that threaten to tear it apart.
Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several...
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 05/02/2017
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-1-101-97106-2
Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway Award
Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
Homegoing follows the...
Winner of the NBCC's John Leonard First Book Prize
Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery.
Homegoing follows the...
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
Publisher: Random House
On Sale: 08/23/2016
Price: $28.00
ISBN: 978-0-812-99848-1
Winner of the 2017 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Selected for common reading at Fashion Institute of Technology
In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States...
Selected for common reading at Fashion Institute of Technology
In the vein of Amy Tan and Khaled Hosseini comes a compulsively readable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American Dream—the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy.
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States...
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books
On Sale: 08/16/2016
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-01480-9
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
Winner of the New Statesman Award
Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.
Winner of the New Statesman Award
Set in the Ibo heartland of eastern Nigeria, this novel describes the conflict between old and new in its most poignant aspect: the personal struggle between father and son.
Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Penguin Books
On Sale: 08/16/2016
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-385-08616-5
Winner of the Man Booker International Prize
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds
In A Man of the People, Achebe foreshadows the Nigerian coups of 1966 and shows the color and vivacity as well as the violence and corruption of a society making its own way between the two worlds
A NOVEL
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: 06/07/2016
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-1-101-94713-5
“Homegoing is an inspiration.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations,Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born...
A novel of breathtaking sweep and emotional power that traces three hundred years in Ghana and along the way also becomes a truly great American novel. Extraordinary for its exquisite language, its implacable sorrow, its soaring beauty, and for its monumental portrait of the forces that shape families and nations,Homegoing heralds the arrival of a major new voice in contemporary fiction.
Two half-sisters, Effia and Esi, are born...
A NOVEL
Format: Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: 04/26/2016
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 978-0-385-35188-1
Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize
From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women—“a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes” (The New York Times)—here is a harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame.
On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse’s husband and daughter know nothing of...
From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women—“a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes” (The New York Times)—here is a harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame.
On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse’s husband and daughter know nothing of...
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 08/18/2015
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-804-17062-8
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize
Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A Financial Times Best Book of 2015
A New York Times Notable Book
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year
An NPR Great Read
A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year
In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas...
Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
A Financial Times Best Book of 2015
A New York Times Notable Book
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Book of the Year
An NPR Great Read
A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of the Year
In these pages, Laila Lalami brings us the imagined memoirs of the first black explorer of America: Mustafa al-Zamori, called Estebanico. The slave of a Spanish conquistador, Estebanico sails for the Americas...
A MEMOIR
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Anchor
On Sale: 05/12/2015
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-1-101-91051-1
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration...
Renowned novelist, poet, playwright, and literary critic Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o was a student at a prestigious, British-run boarding school near Nairobi when the tumultuous Mau Mau Uprising for independence and Kenyan sovereignty gripped his country. While he enjoyed scouting trips and chess tournaments, his family home was razed to the ground and his brother, a member of the insurgency, was captured by the British and taken to a concentration...
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Other Press
On Sale: 04/28/2015
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 978-1-590-51709-3
From the award-winning author of Tiny Sunbirds, Far Away, the story of a young boy who believes two things: that his Nigerian birth mother loves him like the world has never known love, and that he is a wizard
Elijah, seven years old, is covered in scars and has a history of disruptive behavior. Taken away from his birth mother, a Nigerian immigrant in England, Elijah is moved from one foster parent to the next before finding a home with Nikki and her husband, Obi.
Nikki believes that she...
Elijah, seven years old, is covered in scars and has a history of disruptive behavior. Taken away from his birth mother, a Nigerian immigrant in England, Elijah is moved from one foster parent to the next before finding a home with Nikki and her husband, Obi.
Nikki believes that she...
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: 01/06/2015
Price: $16.00
ISBN: 978-0-345-80566-9
Longlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award
A sweeping, continent-spanning story about the love between men and women, between friends, and between citizens and their countries, All Our Names is a transfixing exploration of the relationships that define us. Fleeing war-torn Uganda for the American Midwest, Isaac begins a passionate affair with the social worker assigned to him. But the couple’s bond is inescapably darkened by the secrets of Isaac’s past: the country and the...
A sweeping, continent-spanning story about the love between men and women, between friends, and between citizens and their countries, All Our Names is a transfixing exploration of the relationships that define us. Fleeing war-torn Uganda for the American Midwest, Isaac begins a passionate affair with the social worker assigned to him. But the couple’s bond is inescapably darkened by the secrets of Isaac’s past: the country and the...
