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Häftad, Engelska, 2027
148 kr
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A 1996 NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Poignant' KIRKUS REVIEW'A rich impression of the warmth and colour of Zimbabwean family life' PENELOPE LIVELY, Booker Prize-winning author of MOON TIGERWritten as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter, a student at Harvard, Zenzele evokes the moving story of a mother reaching out to her daughter to share the lessons life has taught her and bring the two closer than ever before. Interweaving history and memories, disappointments and dreams, the novel tells the tales of Zimbabwe’s struggle for independence and the men and women who shaped it: Zenzele’s father, an outspoken activist lawyer; her aunt, a schoolteacher by day and secret guerrilla fighter by night; and her cousin, a maid and a spy.Rich with insight, history, and philosophy, Zenzele is a powerful and compelling story that is both revolutionary and revelatory – the story of one life that poignantly speaks of all lives.'Richly textured' ESSENCE MAGAZINE
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
148 kr
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'Some of the most brilliant fiction in Yoruba writing' WOLE SOYINKA, Nobel Prize-winning author of LAND OF THE HAPPIEST PEOPLE ON EARTH'A classic of the African imagination' BEN OKRI, Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROADPublished in Nigeria in 1939, The Forest of a Thousand Daemons is the first novel be written in Yoruba. The narrative unfolds in a landscape where, true to Yoruba cosmology, human, natural and supernatural beings are compellingly and wonderfully alive at once: a world of warriors, sages and kings; magical trees and snake people; spirits, Ghommids and bog-trolls. Here are the adventures of Akara-ogun — son of a brave warrior and wicked witch — as he journeys into the forest, encountering and dealing with all-too-real unforeseen forces, engaging in dynamic spiritual and moral relationships with personifications of his fate, projections of the terrors that haunt man.'A very important book' MARLON JAMES, Booker Prize-winning author of A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
148 kr
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'A beautiful book' ALBERT CAMUS'A Tunisian Balzac graced with Hemingway’s radical simplicity and sadness' NEW YORK TIMESFirst published in 1953, and the recipient of the Prix Carthage, The Pillar of Salt introduces us to Alexandre Benillouche, a young boy growing up in a Jewish neighbourhood of Tunis. Though his ailing father — the patriarch of a poor but proud family — expects him to leave school and pursue work, Alexandre dreams of something else, something bigger: to study philosophy in France. He spends his days attempting to fit in with his wealthy European classmates, but failing — caught between his Jewish, Arab, and French identities. As we follow him into the precipice of adulthood, World War II breaks out in Europe. And suddenly Alexandre, and his community, are thrown into collision with something far greater than they could have imagined.Luminously moving and atmospheric, Memmi tells the story of a colony careening through the early twentieth century, of a young boy determined to make his own way in the world, and of the heavy weight of history that swims under the surface of our ordinary lives.'One of the greatest French-language novels about colonization' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS